-Caveat Lector- Print this article | Close this window 'I've got secrets to sink the Blairs' http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/02/20/1045638428449.html February 21 2003
The truth about Cherie Blair's relationship with lifestyle guru Carole Caplin has yet to be revealed, the man at the centre of the Cheriegate scandal will claim in a BBC documentary to be screened Thursday night in London. Convicted conman Peter Foster, whose assistance in the purchase of two flats led to weeks of damaging headlines for the Blairs last year, claimed that the fitness adviser had secrets which could "sink" the Prime Minister and his wife. And he hinted that he would use an autobiography which he is currently writing to reveal his own secrets about Caplin and the Blairs. The fly-on-the-wall documentary, which will reopen an embarrassing episode for the Prime Minister, follows Caplin and Foster at the height of the scandal. Film-maker Lynne Alleway, a personal friend of Caplin's, was invited to film them as they dodged the press and lay low in Carole's luxurious all-white London apartment, decorated with several pictures of the Blairs. The cameras catch Tony Blair apparently leaving a late-night message on Miss Caplin's answerphone, and Carole taking several calls which she says are from Cherie. Foster claimed that Mr Blair rang "three or four" times a week during the scandal, and alleged that forces within Downing Street were trying to break the couple up. And he suggested that concern over what Ms Caplin might reveal about them lay behind the Blairs' decision to maintain their friendship with her despite the bad press she attracted. "Carole's secrets could sink them," he said. "They are worried that she will sell her story one day, so I think that is why they really want to embrace her. I think they like her, but I think the machinery is saying, 'You must embrace this woman'. "My understanding is that the six-month plan for them is get rid of me and then in six months' time they will ease Carole out." Miss Caplin said that Mr Blair's director of communications Alastair Campbell had had "a bee in his bonnet" since she met Cherie about the dangers of her talking to the press. The documentary - entitled the Conman, His Lover and the Prime Minister's wife - chronicles the final days of the Cheriegate affair and the run-up to a public statement by Mr Foster in which he backed up Downing Street's version of events. But immediately after making the statement, which effectively drew a halt to the media frenzy over the scandal, he told the cameras he had "concealed rather than revealed" the truth. Asked if he will ever "open up" on what had really happened, he replied: "Maybe in the book." As he gave the statement, Mr Foster was wearing a T-shirt with a picture of the Blair family on it under his shirt - "for luck", as he said. The documentary reveals the couple's relationship becoming increasingly tense under the pressure of media attention. And it shows Mr Foster's growing resentment at his treatment by the Blairs and their spokesmen. He accused Mrs Blair of lying about her knowledge of his criminal convictions and of handling the whole affair "atrociously". "This whole involvement with me and Cherie and the flats could have been put to bed in one day," he said. "I think she's handled a bad situation atrociously, and let it get out of hand." Miss Caplin claims that Ms Alleway has "betrayed" her by editing the footage to portray Foster in a negative light. Yesterday, Foster tried to block broadcast of the documentary, claiming the producers reneged on an agreement to let him view and approve the film before it is shown. His lawyers sent a letter to the BBC objecting to its transmission but the matter now appears to have been dropped. The Conman, His Lover and the Prime Minister's Wife will be screened at 9pm (0800 Friday AEDT) on BBC1. 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