![]() As long as there is no malice involved, I can't see a problem. She complains that it is "indefensible" to draw someone into a private conversation on a false premise. Ninety nine per cent of my "victims" have taken the wind-ups in the spirit in which they are intended. I've done stunts like this for 20 odd years and you get a sense of how far to take it. But it became a global story and Blair laughed it off. I put the stunt on air without clearing it with anybody. ![]() Blair has since told me he wished the call had gone on for longer but security staff listening in decided to cut him short. What gave it away was that we called him "Tony" whereas Hague had always referred to him as "prime minister". Blair said, "That's quite a good imitation". ![]() Jon Culshaw, the impressionist, pretended to be the then Conservative leader, and offered the prime minister a Cher exercise video. ![]() It was similar to the trick I played on Tony Blair in 1998 when I worked at London's Capital Radio.īlair was leaving his morning briefing when I called the Downing Street switchboard at 8.35am. Rory Bremner has come clean about a stunt phone call in which he made Margaret Beckett think he was Gordon Brown. ![]()
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