The Sunday Telegraph revealed that 48 hours later, "the yobs delivered their emphatic response". A vulgar message to Mr Blair was spray-painted in 3ft-high letters across a 20ft section of the wall he had cleaned.
Not surprisingly, the fresh graffiti did not last long. A council workman had cleaned the wall by 9am, said the paper.
Other journalistic minds were at work too. The Daily Mirror was pleased to find that Tony Blair's grandmother had been a "graffiti vandal". It said that Mary Blair helped daub Communist slogans on walls in the 1930s. She helped mix the whitewash, apparently.
A columnist who also happens to be a Member of the Scottish Parliament grew eloquent in defence of modern youth.
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