Lord Levy's book reveals that he was asked by a senior figure within Downing Street to confront Tony Blair over "long massages" that the then Prime Minister was said to be receiving from Carole Caplin.

He says he was asked to intervene when rumours swept No10 about visits that the fitness guru was paying to the Prime Minister's country home, Chequers. And when the peer raised the matter at a private meeting in Downing Street, an embarrassed Mr Blair "went bright red".