{"id":39022,"date":"2025-12-30T00:15:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T00:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/too-complacent-how-blairs-advisers-misjudged-his-disastrous-wi-speech\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T00:15:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T00:15:38","slug":"too-complacent-how-blairs-advisers-misjudged-his-disastrous-wi-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/too-complacent-how-blairs-advisers-misjudged-his-disastrous-wi-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Too complacent\u2019: how Blair\u2019s advisers misjudged his disastrous WI speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former PM\u2019s team suggested initial less-politicised drafts seemed patronising and appealed to \u2018fuddy-duddy Britain\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/dec\/30\/gordon-brown-allies-could-wreck-labour-2005-election-peter-mandelson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brown\u2019s allies could wreck Labour\u2019s 2005 election hopes, Mandelson warned<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tony Blair\u2019s key advisers agonised over the writing of his notoriously ill-judged speech to the Women\u2019s Institute (WI) which saw the then prime minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2000\/jun\/08\/uk.labour3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">heckled and slow hand-clapped before 10,000 members at Wembley Arena<\/a>, newly released documents reveal.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the WI explicitly warning they were \u201cwary of anything that smacked of capital P politics\u201d, Blair\u2019s aides were critical of his first draft and bombarded him with additions to inject more policy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/dec\/30\/tony-blair-advisers-wi-speech-womens-institute\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former PM\u2019s team suggested initial less-politicised drafts seemed patronising and appealed to \u2018fuddy-duddy Britain\u2019 Brown\u2019s allies could wreck Labour\u2019s 2005 election hopes, Mandelson warned Tony Blair\u2019s key advisers agonised over the writing of his notoriously ill-judged speech to the Women\u2019s Institute (WI) which saw the then prime minister heckled and slow hand-clapped before 10,000 members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fast-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 13:49:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}