Cherie wants me fired, says Mirror editor
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Your support makes all the difference.Piers Morgan claimed today that Cherie Blair has been trying to get him fired as editor of the Daily Mirror.
"I said to Blair recently, 'I would appreciate it if you stopped the missus trying to get me sacked'," Mr Morgan said in an interview in The Spectator magazine.
He told columnist Petronella Wyatt: "Every time she sits next to one of my bosses she tries to get me fired. Blair is more sensible and understanding that we can't arse-lick. She takes it as a personal betrayal.
"She is too political. But she hasn't got me fired and it doesn't do her husband any favours for her to go around demanding the heads of editors."
Earlier in the interview Mr Morgan said: "Cherie Blair, I have a very hard relationship with. She has caused a lot of the problems between Tony and the media.
"She is too aggressive. She bestows her patronage and then removes it on a whim.
"We had a Barnardo's campaign appeal – she is president of the charity – that was going to run in this paper with her endorsement, and at the last minute it was taken from us and given to the News of the World.
"Apparently she had been upset about our leaders on Stephen Byers. Why do that at a time when our relationship is fractious anyway?"
During the course of the interview, Mr Morgan took a telephone call. It was Mrs Blair herself on the line.
"You couldn't make it up, could you?" he told Ms Wyatt.
Then he told his secretary to tell Mrs Blair that he would ring her back. "That is quite comical. Maybe she has come to her senses," he commented.
Mr Morgan added: "Cherie causes trouble between Blair and Brown because she hates him. If you live next door, you have to get on with your neighbour. The Blair bubble is bursting."
A Downing Street spokesman said they would be studying the article.
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