James Landale
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Wanted to be prime minister, exactly.
And basically went behind William Hague's back and did a deal, private deal with Downing Street and Blair.
And basically said, okay, we will eventually let your reforms through, but you are going to save 92 hereditaries who are going to carry on.
And he did this deal without telling Haig.
And so Haig had to sack him.
And the reason Blair gave in to that was because he was just so bored of the whole thing.
There was a story I remember once about how this issue was being brought up again at Cabinet.
And Blair started publicly yawning because he found the whole thing so, so boring.
But that's why the heredities have survived for so long.
And here we all are.
And they're only now leaving Haig.
A lot of the targets were energy infrastructure.
There's a clear attempt by Russia now to make living in Ukraine very, very hard.
make it very hard, particularly in the east, for people to get access to electricity and to get heating.
And that's not just a question of trying to damage Ukrainian morale, but it's also trying to damage Ukraine's economy.
They just want to make it very, very hard to do stuff in Ukraine simply because they think that is a long-term strategy that could put some political pressure on the government here in Kyiv.
A lot of the targets were energy infrastructure.
There's a clear attempt by Russia now to make living in Ukraine very, very hard.