The letter, which the shadow health secretary described as "sinister", summoned the employee to a meeting with their NHS Trust chief executive because it was "inappropriate" for them to have raised personal objections to the bill.

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Mr Bremner, despite being an admitted Labour supporter, has led the attack: his recent Channel 4 series featured a crazed, messianic Mr Blair being manipulated by a sinister, virtual-reality version of Peter Mandelson, the prime minister's chief image-maker.

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