Blair: My reforms will stand the test of time

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Mr Blair said he would be spending the last days of his premiership putting in place the "final building blocks" of long-term public service reforms.

He listed reductions in NHS waiting times, building more schools and tackling anti-social behaviour as some of his main achievements.

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Mr Blair said he would be spending the last days of his premiership putting in place the "final building blocks" of long-term public service reforms

Interviewed in Downing Street for BBC1's Politics Show, Mr Blair said: "When you ask the question 'Will our changes stand the test of time?', the answer is they will."

On the subject of the royal split, Mr Blair commented that most of the coverage about Prince William and Kate Middleton's break-up would be "nonsense" and urged people to let them get on with their lives.

The Prime Minister called for people to leave the couple alone now that the shock news of their split had been revealed.

He said: "I think, in respect of Prince William, they are a young couple. We have had the announcement, fine.

"They should be left alone now without reams of stuff being written that I can assure you, from my experience of royal stories, most of which will be complete nonsense.

"I think, now it has been announced, they should be allowed to get on with their lives."

Mr Blair said people in public life largely accepted they would get a certain amount of press attention because that was "the way it is".

He continued: "My experience of it actually is that what concerns people is not so much the invasion of their privacy as such, because I think most people in public life accept that you are bound to be a public issue and item in that sense.

"I think it is more that usually whatever is discussed about you publicly is surrounded by a whole lot of other stuff that is either unfair or sometimes completely untrue and that is the thing that really gets people down."