Cherie blossoms: Mrs Blair makes springtime return to her roots
Cherie Blair gets a warm welcome from Labour candidate Shahid Malik to Dewsbury yesterday where she spoke about her little-known local roots during a visit to a hospital.
The wife of former Prime Minister Tony Blair apologised after arriving 90 minutes late in a chauffeur-driven Range Rover, saying she had been delayed during a visit to the Calder Valley constituency to see her father, the actor Tony Booth, and his wife Steph Booth – Mrs Blair's stepmother – who is also a Labour candidate.