IT’S SAID that Tony Blair’s new book is the fastest-selling autobiography in the history of the world, ever. Or something.

It might be; who knows? Who cares?

How can we believe anything told to us by Tony Blair, or those who earn their crust from him?

In his book Blair blithely admits to being manipulative.

He says that politicians sometimes have to tell lies, as if this excused such behaviour.

He doesn’t appear to understand the irony that even as he was praising Gordon Brown before the election for his “experience, judgement and boldness” he actually regarded the man as a virtual fruit-loop, with “self-evident personal drawbacks” and not “psychologically wired” to cope with criticism.

Blair says lots of things, mainly fanciful or, in the case of his and Cherie’s private life and his love of sitting on the loo, utterly cringeworthy.

But it’s what he doesn’t tell us that interests me.

I want to know if he knew there were no Iraqi weapons of mass destruction capable of hitting the UK in 45 minutes.

I want to know if he knew the forces he sent to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan were woefully under-resourced.

I want him to tell us if little Leo had the full MMR jab or if he had those injections separately, as has been rumoured for many years.

If Leo didn’t have the full MMR jab, why not, or did Mr Blair and his wife know something we didn’t?

And if he did have it, as he has always strongly indicated, then why not just say so clearly at the time?

I also want to know the truth about those flats that Cherie engaged the services of a convicted conman to purchase for her.

And I want to know how Blair’s Roman Catholicism sits with Alastair Campbell’s assertion that “we don’t do God”. In the end, I just want to know the truth.

But the idea that this will ever emerge from the self-serving pile of pants that is his autobiography is about as likely as England winning the World Cup.

Much has been made of the fact that the profits and advance from this tome will be given to the Royal British Legion to help injured soldiers. It’s claimed the gains could amount to £4 million.

For the chance to launder his stained reputation, for the chance to re-write history and strut his stuff on the world stage, for the opportunity to continue to apparently flog his backside to the highest bidder, £4 million is cheap at the price.

As I’m sure Blair has calculated.