Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair denied Thursday claims that he warned President Donald Trump’s aides that British spies had put them under surveillance during the 2016 election campaign and deemed the allegations “complete fabrication, literally from beginning to end.”
Journalist Michael Wolff’s new book “Fire and Fury” says that the former British PM told Trump’s aides about the British intelligence services’ surveillance of the U.S. election campaign, Politico reports.
Wolff says in his book that Blair suggested there was a possibility “that the British had had the Trump campaign staff under surveillance, monitoring its telephone calls and other communications and possibly even Trump himself.”
However, Blair told the BBC’s Today Program that the allegations were absolutely false and incorrect. The former prime minister admitted he had met Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner but said that they discussed “the Middle East peace process” during the meetings.
He also denied implications that he was seeking an advisory role, as the book claims.
On a separate note, Blair has penned an essay calling Brexit “an error the contemporary world cannot understand and the generations of the future will not forgive.”
Blair argues in his essay that the Labor Party needs to make the case for EU membership and explain why Britain needs to stay in the European Union.
“I would like the Labour Party to be on the high ground of progressive politics, explaining why membership of the European Union is right as a matter of principle, for profound political as well as economic reasons.”
Blair told the BBC Thursday he accepted the referendum result but thought now that the U.K. had the right “to think again” and “have another say.” He said this could be either through a general election or a referendum on the eventual deal.
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