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One of the most striking things I heard about Tony Blair as I was writing my biography of him was from John Lloyd, a comrade in arms of Blair’s in the Hackney South Labour Party and my former editor at the New Statesman. I said that I thought it was one of Blair’s great strengths that, not only did he seem “normal”, but he actually was. “I don’t think he is normal,” said Lloyd. “He doesn’t think he is normal. He thinks he is exceptional.”