The Blair regime in Downing Street became infamous for Alistair Campbell saying that “We don’t do God.” But Cherie Blair loses little time in correcting this political myth after we meet in her mews-like office in north Mayfair on the day that Liz Truss became PM. “Faith and Labour politics” is what originally brought Cherie and her husband Tony together as young lawyers, so when Campbell made that remark Cherie disagreed. “I did say to Tony at the time: “But you DO do GOD”.
What did he reply? “Well, he does God first of all. I mean, he knows that. But I also know that there is an important position here about a secular society and the separation between your private beliefs and what you do in the public sphere.”
