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Downing Street is fighting fiercely for something it hopes it shall control: its reputation. '[The BBC] is now saying, 'Nobody ever said the prime minister told a lie,' but that's exactly what they're saying,' Alastair Campbell, Blair's director of communications, told Newsweek. 'That's pretty heavy.'