[Not so long ago you (Blair) would have been jailed for such anti British talk, now we have a PM who openly reads communist books! BTW It makes me laugh when mega rich folk spout on and on about socialism and the working class. Did Tony Blair not have a rich middle class education?-ed]

LONDON - Prime Minister Tony Blair, who wrenched his party from the left to the center of the political spectrum, said he had been inspired to enter politics by a book about socialist icon Leon Trotsky.

At a World Book Day event at London’s Commonwealth Club earlier this week, Blair said Isaac Deutscher’s biography of the Russian communist leader was the book that meant the most to him.

Deutscher’s three-volume work — “The Prophet Armed,” “The Prophet Unarmed” and “The Prophet Outcast” — paints a sympathetic portrait of Trotsky, who helped Vladimir Lenin lead the 1917 Russian revolution but was later driven out by Joseph Stalin. He was murdered by an agent of Stalin in Mexico in 1940.

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