Is this the last straw for Blair and co?
部外者's 見解（をとる）: Jack Straw is to pen a political autobiography which is likely to 含む／封じ込める 詳細（に述べる）s of Gordon Brown and Tony Blair's time in 政府
So far, the 調書をとる／予約するs on the New 労働 years have been glib, 悪賢い and self-serving ― think Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson.?
The next, Gordon Brown’s account of his 役割 in events he says 回避するd a banking ?炉心溶融, 約束s to be dense.
But now, I have news of what （人命などを）奪う，主張するs to be an 客観的な ?insider’s account of the Blair/Brown years ― from the pen of former Foreign 長官 Jack Straw.
Unbeknown to Blair and his ex-閣僚 同僚s, Straw has this week started work on his political autobiography, which will 明らかにする／漏らす all about the behind-the-scenes 列／漕ぐ／騒動s over the war in Iraq and will 含む for the first time his 見解（をとる） on the 悲劇の death of Dr David Kelly.
Straw, 64, one of only three ?大臣s to serve in 閣僚 throughout the entire 労働 統治する from 1997 to 2010, is uniquely placed and, since he was never himself a 競争相手 to 後継する Blair or Brown, his memoirs are likely to shed a more truthful light on what really happened.?
類似して, he was also a bystander to some of the dreadful 列／漕ぐ／騒動s between the two men.
Speaking at a political awards 儀式, where he was talking animatedly to fellow MP Gisela Stuart, Straw, who has himself just returned to the backbenches for the first time in 30 years, tells me: ‘I have already started it (the 調書をとる／予約する). In fact I have just written the first 600 words.?
‘I am really ?getting into the stride o
f it. I 目的（とする） to have it ?finished by this time next year. ‘
Its 出版（物）, planned for the end of 2011, could be a timely Christmas cracker for David ?Cameron as the going gets 堅い over the 規模 of the 連合’s spending 削減（する）s.?
Straw, who 支援するd Ed Miliband for the 労働 leadership, will not pull his punches, and is 推定する／予想するd to re-open old 負傷させるs in the party over the 悲惨な war in Iraq.?
He will also almost certainly ?discuss whether he thinks 労働 should have 捨てるd Brown, whom he 非難するs for their 選挙 fiasco.
He may also use it to 示す whether he is to stand 負かす／撃墜する at the next 総選挙, in 2015, to take a seat in the Lords ― 覆うing the way for his son Will, 30, a ?political blogger, to suceed him as MP for Blackburn, as I 示唆するd last week.
Nine months after Ed Vaizey, the portly communications 大臣, began a diet by giving up alcohol, he hasn’t 現実に lost any 負わせる. ‘The 枢機けい／主要な 支配する for dieting is not to eat anything after 6pm,’ says Ed, who was hoping to lose 40 lbs. 式のs, he tells me, ‘I am unable to keep to that 支配する.’?
This was only too obvious at a ?cultural feast in London this week for the 開始する，打ち上げる of an Azerbaijan ?carpet 展示 where Fakhraddin Gurbanov, the Azerbaijan 外交官／大使, was spotted 選ぶing sweetmeats from a tray of his country’s culinary delicacies ― and feeding them 直接／まっすぐに into Vaizey’s mouth.
Marie shows she's still got naked ambition
Taken aback: Marie Helvin is surprised she has been asked to do a topless photoshoot in her 50s
More than 40 years after she was ?discovered while a schoolgirl in her native Hawaii, Marie Helvin is surely one of our most 耐えるing models.?
Still in 需要・要求する at 58, even she was taken aback by her 最新の （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限 ― 提起する／ポーズをとるing naked for 最高の，を越す photographer Rankin. ‘Never did I think I would be doing a nude shoot in my 50s,’ Marie tells me. ‘But I am proud of it. Mind you, the other models featured are so young I could be their grandmother!’
It’s the first time Marie had stripped off for the camera since she 提起する／ポーズをとるd for those iconic pictures by her ex-husband David Bailey more than 30 years ago. ‘To models, 広大な／多数の／重要な photographers are like 広大な／多数の／重要な directors to actors, you want to work with the best. So, when Rankin said he 手配中の，お尋ね者 to shoot me, you just 減少（する） everything and go,’ she says, no pun ーするつもりであるd.
The result, published in a new 調書をとる／予約する, is ‘tasteful’. She says: ‘Sure, there is a breast on show, but it is not at all explicit. And 存在 naked in a studio with strangers was 解放するing.’?
追加するs Marie, who keeps fit with 力／強力にする walks: ‘But, at my age, I have to work hard to keep my 人物／姿／数字.
Westminster Abbey hosted eight 王室の weddings between 1919 and 1986. One exception was the Duke and Duchess of Kent, who married at York Minster.?
挟むd between William and Kate’s ?nuptials and Prince Philip’s 90th birthday will be the 大部分は unnoticed golden ?wedding 周年記念日 of the Kents on June 8, 2011.?
The Duchess dropped her HRH status in 2002, and the couple have lived 独立した・無所属 lives since, so a party is ありそうもない. But 王室の golden weddings are rare; only the Queen has ma de that milestone in 最近の years.
nLast word on that （犯罪の）一味. Diana didn’t 現実に choose it, or much like it. It was selected from a tray 申し込む／申し出d to the Queen by 栄冠を与える jeweller David Thomas, and then shown to Prince Charles. Diana 受託するd it, as she didn’t want to seem rude.
But she later told butler Paul Burrell: ‘I would never have ?chosen something so gaudy.’
Equestrian 支持する／優勝者 Carl Hester, a one-time £200-a-week stable boy and now a の近くに friend of Zara Phillips, is 開始する，打ち上げるing a new career as a TV 星／主役にする. His 飛行機で行く-on-the-塀で囲む 文書の, At Home With Carol Hester, was previewed last night at Soho House.
‘Zara could’ve been in it too. I train her in dressage and she would’ve looked 広大な／多数の／重要な,’ says Carl, 41. ‘But, I didn’t think it was 権利 to capitalise on my friendship with her ― even though it would’ve 増加するd the テレビ視聴者s. But Zara will watch me on TV because she loves horses ― and I’ll tell her to!’
It's a February wedding for this Katharine
Wedding bells: Former Sky 王室の 特派員 Katharine Witty is likely to （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 her namesake 負かす／撃墜する the aisle
She might once have 推定する／予想するd to 報告（する）／憶測 on William and Kate’s wedding ― but, instead, Katharine Witty (pictured) will almost certainly be （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域ing them 負かす／撃墜する the aisle.?
The 35-year-old mother-of-two, who spent three years as Sky TV’s 王室の 特派員 before becoming the public 直面する of Harrods, is marrying hedge 基金 boss Paul Spence in February.
It is a second marriage for them both. But, unlike her namesake, Katharine is planning something on a much smaller 規模.?
‘It’s second time 一連の会議、交渉／完成する for both of us, so it won’t be big,’ the once blonde now brunette PR boss tells me. The couple, who met through friends, have been dating for almost two years. Spence, 49, also has two children.
Katharine’s first marriage to City lawyer Simon Witty ended during the 非常に長い 検死 into Princess Diana’s death in 2008, when Ms Witty was ever-現在の at the High 法廷，裁判所.
In between building a £1?billion rail 交換, 近づく Durham, which he says will create 7,000 職業s, oddball 労働 寄贈者 David Abrahams has been 任命するd 副／悪徳行為-大統領，／社長 of the 王室の 部隊d Services 学校／設ける.
The defence and 安全 think-戦車／タンク, which has the Duke of Kent as 大統領，／社長 and the Queen as patron, is based in Whitehall, and most of its members tend to be 軍の types.?
However, bachelor Abrahams, 65, tells me: ‘I have been a ?member of RUSI for four years and, recently, I was sponsored by a 労働 MP and a 労働 peer to become a 副／悪徳行為-大統領，／社長. I have a particular 利益／興味 in international 外交, ?特に in the Middle East.’?
In 2007, the multi-millionaire was 明らかにする／漏らすd to have channelled £400,000 to 労働, partly through the 指名する of a 建設業者 who lived in a 会議 house. So, will he be making 類似の ?寄付s to RUSI? ‘It is vulgar to talk about money,’ he says.
- PS: 労働 cheerleader and millionaire thriller writer Ken Follett bankrolled Ed Balls’s failed leadership （選挙などの）運動をする to the tune of £115,000 earlier this year. But にもかかわらず Balls failing so spectacularly to 勝利，勝つ the contest, that hasn’t stop
ped Follett putting his 手渡す in his pocket again to help out the MP. 議会の 記録，記録的な／記録するs show he’s just 調印するd over another £11,000 to Balls ― 指名するd yesterday by the 観客 as 議会人 of the Year ― who is now 影をつくる／尾行する home 長官. Has Follett more money than sense?
