Blair ‘redrafted an IRA statement’

TONY BLAIR redrafted an IRA statement at the prime minister’s country residence Chequers in the presence of Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams in 2003, a senior aide to the former British prime minister has revealed.

Mr Blair also offered to meet with the IRA army council in secret in a bid to keep the Northern Ireland peace process from collapse.

The revelations are made in a memoir by Jonathan Powell, chief of staff to Mr Blair for the duration of his decade as British prime minister.