The former Prime Minister laughed off the way in which his former press secretary Alastair Campbell advised him to avoid discussing religion when he was in power as he made his most explicit public profession of faith.
Speaking at a debate in London with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, Mr Blair spoke openly about his belief in “salvation through Jesus Christ” and even attempted to explain the resurrection.
He disclosed for the first time how he even once ordered his aides to kneel down and pray at a meeting with members of the Salvation Army.
And he dismissed claims that he prayed with George Bush – but insisted that it would “not have been wrong” to do so.
Mr Blair joined Dr Williams and the former Daily Telegraph editor Charles Moore to discuss the role of religion in public life at the latest in the series of high-profile Westminster Faith Debates in London.
John Bingham | Read this article in full at telegraph.co.uk
