Editing Clare Short (section)

====Book====
Clare Short's book, ''An Honourable Deception?: New Labour, Iraq, and the Misuse of Power'', was released by [[Free Press (publisher)|Free Press]] in November 2004.<ref>{{Cite book|title=An honourable deception? : New Labour, Iraq, and the misuse of power|last=Clare.|first=Short|date=2005|publisher=Free|isbn=0743263936|location=London|oclc=58050529}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Sawhney|first=Hirsh|title=Blair's House of Cards: Clare Short in conversation with Hirsh Sawhney|journal=The Brooklyn Rail|date=June 2006|url=http://brooklynrail.org/2006/06/express/blairs-house-of-cards}}</ref>  It was an account of her career in [[New Labour]], most notably her relationship with Prime Minister [[Tony Blair]], the relationship between Blair and [[Gordon Brown]] and the build-up to the [[2003 invasion of Iraq]]. The book won Channel 4's Political Book of the Year Award for 2004.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.clareshort.org/books|title=Books {{!}} Clare Short|website=www.clareshort.org|language=en-GB|access-date=2018-08-11}}</ref>

In December 2004, Short was reportedly critical of US efforts to dispense aid to countries devastated by [[2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami|a tsunami caused by a massive earthquake in the Indian Ocean]]. She was quoted as stating that the formation of a group of countries led by the United States for this purpose was a challenge to the role of the United Nations, which she believed was uniquely qualified for the task.{{Citation needed|date=May 2015}}