The Sunday Telegraph spoofed its Blair- Brown row exclusive this week by leaving out a “killer quote” from the first edition.
The
serialisation of City Editor Robert Peston’s book Brown’s Britain led
the news agenda with its allegation that Blair reneged on a promise to
stand aside as Prime Minister last year.
According to Peston, Brown said to Blair: “There is nothing you could say to me now that I could ever believe.”
Although
this quote was the headline in The Sunday Telegraph’s second and third
editions it was omitted from the paper’s early print run.
Related
Editor
Dominic Lawson said: “If we had kept that quote in the first edition
other people would have run with that – it seemed to work because a lot
of people didn’t follow us up”.
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