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Spinner reveals Blair fury at Winning abortion attack
Former New Labour PR man Alastair Campbell's autobiography includes details of a row with Cardinal Winning, the Catholic Archbishop of Glasgow, over the Labour Party's refusal to have an anti-abortion stand at its party conference in 1995.Cardinal Winning had taken a "big blast" at the then Labour leader. An entry in February that year said the pair ruled out retaliating for fear of inflaming religious sensitivities in Scotland: "The attack was pretty heavy and TB was livid. He said he couldn't stand it when churchmen played politics like this, especially as TB had been trying to sort this out. His first reaction was to demand a right to reply but he agreed to take soundings - did he really want a Blair v Catholic Church row raging throughout Scotland just as we were coming up to Scottish conference."
Full story at The Scotsman.
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