One of the more insane stories in The alastair Campbell diaries (that my friend told me of because I've not read them) is that campbell after he left number ten was still getting sent confidential material by blair on a whim from blair which. Crazy

I hope to eventually be a writer professionally so it's good that I'm branching out

Totally lol 😭. Everyone in the blair govt has awful opsec. I have a special interest in new labour and I can tell you these guys were NOT making sure they weren't tracked. A few of the stories are genuinely mind boggling

Cherie Blair says in her book she thought gordon brown's people leaked which I'm sure contributed to the blair brown rift (phone hacking hadn't come to light when she'd published it)

Surprisingly no. If you're referring to the phone hacking scandal the phone of carole caplin one of the blair's close friend/advisor was tapped as far back as 2001/2 iirc? It was also possibly why the pregnancy announcement in 1999 was leaked.

He actually didn't own a cellphone until after he left office. Which is sort of ridiculous given that he was PM and the PM should ideally be more on the tech. There's a whole bunch of weird things re british govt and tech