Forget Tony. Did Cherie receive Communion when she met the Pope??????

Scott’s book claims that Mrs Blair was disappointed in her own political ambitions, obsessed with money and caught up in weird New Age practices.

It alleges she apparently wielded enormous influence over her husband, constantly putting herself at the centre of key decisions in government.

It also claims that Mrs Blair’s lifestyle guru, Carole Caplin, continued to have a very close relationship with the couple. She controlled many decisions in their lives, often with "disastrous consequences".

The book’s main claims are:

• Mrs Blair has borrowed a practice from white witchcraft and on a regular basis she casts a circle, a deeply symbolic act in magic, to create "sacred space";

• Mrs Blair submitted herself to a New Age sexual technique before becoming pregnant with Leo;

• Miss Caplin used to wash Cherie in the bath as part of her "pampering service" and regularly took day-time "power-naps" in the Blairs’ bed;

• Mr Blair always keeps a grey velvet pouch in his breast pocket. It contains a small piece of red ribbon and a piece of rolled-up paper. Even his closest advisers do not know its significance, but he cannot operate without it.

Of course, it’s all false. No truth. Lies, lies. Except I hope the pouch thing is true. That’s very DVC.