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Blair feared kidnapped, replaced by impostor
Fears are growing in Whitehall today that Prime Minister Tony Blair has been kidnapped and replaced with a look-alike.
Suspicions were raised when a person purporting to be Mr Blair told the Commons Liaison Committee this morning that weapons of mass destruction may never be found in Iraq. This is in striking contrast to Mr Blair's oft-repeated statements in the past of his absolute certainty that failed dictator and recent television personality Saddam Hussein™ had WMDs and that they would indeed be found.
Startled MPs who had been grilling the alleged Mr Blair cut the meeting short and called for security staff for assistance. The alleged PM was taken away for questioning shouting "I'll do you or this, Howard". One of the committee members, who wished to remain anonymous, told our reporter that an admission that he might have been wrong on something - anything - was so utterly uncharacteristic of Mr Blair that the completely unexpected statement threw them off guard. "That's why we called for security," he said. "Who knows what this person might have been capable of if we'd let him continue."
Douglas Ramsbottom, a Downing Street spokesman, said that attempts were being made to locate Cherie Blair, the PM's wife, as she might be able to shed light on whether the person being held by Commons security staff was her husband or an impostor. "For the moment we're assuming it is an impostor," he said, "because we just don't believe that Mr Blair would ever contradict himself like that."
He added that they were working on the theory that the apparent impostor was a BBC plant. "They've been out to get the PM ever since Lord Hutton found Tony not guilty of any wrongdoing, ever," he said. "We think it might be either Harry Enfield or one of those people from Dead Ringers."
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