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原文：

It’s this which gives the book its narrative arc, one it shares with Blair’s. Both tell the story of a man whose previously charmed path to success is suddenly interrupted, running into a catastrophe that will haunt him to his last breath.

The development is the same in both cases, a series of consecutive victories – winning his party’s leadership, rebranding and modernizing that party to appeal to the centre ground, reaching Downing Street, winning re-election – only to make a decision that will wreak lasting havoc.

Cameron offers the same defence for Brexit that Blair gave for Iraq: yes, things might have turned out disastrously, but my mistake was honest, I acted in good faith, I only did what I truly believed was right.

译文：

这种遗憾成了这本回忆录的叙事弧，布莱尔的自传同样如此。两本书讲述的都是一个男人曾有令人艳羡的成功之路，但被一场突然降临的灾难断送前途，成为了他们下半生的梦魇。

两本书案例的演变轨迹也一样，先是一系列胜利——赢得党派领导地位，通过政党形象重塑和现代化改革吸引中立选票，入主唐宁街后，赢得了连任——却最终做出一个具有持久破坏性的决策。

卡梅伦对英国脱欧辩解的说辞和布莱尔对伊拉克的辩护一样：是的，灾难性的后果可能已经产生，但这是我的无心之过，我的行为是真诚的，我只是做了我真正认为对的事。