In this series, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has deep conversations with people who have made a significant contribution to public life about what they believe. How have the navigated their inner life alongside their public profile? What has been their moral ‘touchstone’ through the good times and the bad? How do they engage with faith and spirituality?

This week's guest is the former UK Prime Minister Sir Tony Blair. “We don't do God” is one of the most quoted lines from his 10-year premiership. While famously not wearing religion on his sleeve as a politician, he is open about how his faith has been foundational to the principles that underpinned his politics. This programme seeks to explore the beliefs, values and desires that lay behind decisions he took in office and the inner resources needed to deal with their consequences.

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