Blair & Iraq: Why Tony Blair Went to War: An Investigation

Blair and Iraq is political columnist Steve Richards's investigation into why Tony Blair chose to go to war in Iraq, rooted not in the official Chilcot Inquiry's framework but in a biographical analysis of Blair's political formation during the 1980s. Richards argues that Blair never abandoned his instinct for building the broadest possible coalition, and that his Iraq War decisions were a product of the same triangulation that defined his earlier career, leading him into an unwinnable position.

Richards narrates his own audiobook, bringing the authority of a political insider who has covered Blair's career for decades. His voice gives the analysis the confidence of genuine expertise, and the conversational intimacy of self-narration suits an audiobook that makes its argument through biography rather than formal legal inquiry.