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31st October 1997, 12:00am

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“In the year when I taught him English, I did spend a lot of time making sure his sentences always had verbs, and I’m sorry to see he’s slipped in recent years. But, if he was ill for a day, it was always duller.”

Eric Anderson, former housemaster at Fettes College, remembers his former charge, Tony Blair

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