A Man with a Mission

The second programme tells the inside story of Tony Blair's wars. It includes a remarkable speech that Blair made in his first month as prime minister, proclaiming his could be the first generation where not a single British soldier was sent to war. Yet in his first six years at Number 10, Blair ordered British troops into battle a record number of five times. Michael Cockerell reveals the reasons why. He shows how the prime minister developed his radical new doctrine of the moral case for intervening by force against evil across the whole world. Interviews with the people closest to Blair cast new light on his burning sense of personal mission. And key Downing Street insiders talk for the first time about the effect of Blair's Christian beliefs on his policy.