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Tony Bliar did help Formula One swerve tobacco ad ban, new document reveals 

Tony Blair personally intervened to secure Formula One's exemption from the tobacco advertising ban just hours after meeting Bernie Ecclestone, newly-released documents reveal.

The Government has always insisted the meeting with Labour donor Mr Ecclestone did not swing the move to offer the exemption.

But previously secret papers show that the day after he met the multimillionaire racing boss, Downing Street wrote to Tessa Jowell, then the public health minister.

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