Euan and I Were Very Young... After Four Pints We Were Drunk. And Then I Lost Him ; Exclusive: Family Friend Named by Blair As His Son Euan's Fateful Drinking Partner Talks About That 'Lost' Night in Leicester Square (and How Campaigning with Cherie Years Later Didn't Quite Work Out)

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IT WAS not the biggest disaster Tony Blair faced as Prime Minister but it was perhaps the most embarrassing. His son Euan, then 16, was arrested for collapsing on the pavement in Leicester Square just days after his father had proposed tough on-the-spot fines for exactly such drunken behaviour.

But the identity of Euan's companion that night in July 2000 has always remained a secret - until now. In his memoirs released last week, Mr Blair lets slip that he was called James and went on to be a Labour candidate in this year's General Election.

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Euan and I Were Very Young... After Four Pints We Were Drunk. And Then I Lost Him ; Exclusive: Family Friend Named by Blair As His Son Euan's Fateful Drinking Partner Talks About That 'Lost' Night in Leicester Square (and How Campaigning with Cherie Years Later Didn't Quite Work Out)

In fact, he is James Dove, a 26-year-old barrister and failed Labour candidate who became best friends with Euan when they were pupils at the London Oratory school.

A regular visitor to Downing Street, Chequers and Labour conferences, James holidayed with the Blairs across the world and met Pope John Paul II, Nelson Mandela and ...

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