The former No 10 spin doctor Alastair Campbell suggested setting lawyers on the BBC, while Tony Blair was warned to expect a “magisterial rebuke” from senior figures at the broadcaster, as the row over its coverage of the war in Iraq intensified in the early 2000s, government papers show.
The Cabinet Office files, placed in the National Archives on Friday, illustrate the extent of the animosity between Blair’s No 10 and the BBC.
