Even if untrue,rumours of Blair's alleged affair with Wendi Deng mean there is no fixing the former intimacy of the two godfathersTony Blair's friends and allies seem to accept the globe-trotting former prime minister's emphatic assurances that the press has got it inaccurate again. He did not fill an affair with Rupert Murdoch's now-ex-wife Wendi Deng; instead he was a sympathetic intermediary and confidante in a troubled marriage.
Equally emphatic are Blair's long-standing enemies, and novel ones in the Murdoch camp, or who peddle the story over dinner. "Why did Blair betray a friend? Because he could," says one.
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Source: theguardian.com