Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose, Mo
A standing ovation given to Mo Mowlam during a key Labour party conference speech by Tony Blair led to a campaign against her, her husband has said. ....
Her husband Jon Norton told BBC One's Sunday AM programme the problems started after the PM's speech at Labour's 1998 party conference. ....
Speaking of the ovation, Mr Norton said: "It was certainly the beginning of adverse stories in the paper after that.
He added: "I remember we had [US Secretary of State] Madeline Albright visit us just after that and she was warning Mo that that was probably the most dangerous thing that had ever happened in her political career."
Her husband Jon Norton told BBC One's Sunday AM programme the problems started after the PM's speech at Labour's 1998 party conference. ....
Speaking of the ovation, Mr Norton said: "It was certainly the beginning of adverse stories in the paper after that.
He added: "I remember we had [US Secretary of State] Madeline Albright visit us just after that and she was warning Mo that that was probably the most dangerous thing that had ever happened in her political career."
But, above all things, he most eagerly coveted popularity, being the rival of every man who obtained the applause of the people for any thing he did.
[Suetonius, The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Nero (VI).liii]
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