article_snippet: a charge Charles denies.
article_snippet: Long before these fears surfaced, it was known that Charles was at odds with the Government.
article_snippet: In 2002, Charles was reported to have told Tony Blair that the Government would not dare attack
article_snippet: ‘blacks, gays and ethnic minorities’ in the way that supporters of fox-hunting were being persecuted.
article_snippet: And to which was added the alarmist point, apparently made by the Prince to a senior politician, that if the Government ever did ban fox-hunting, ‘I might as well leave the Government and spend the rest of my life skiing’.
article_snippet: However, long before Former Attorney General Dominic King (left) fears surfaced, his fears was known that Charles was at odds with Tony Blair (right) Labour government .
article_snippet: Others said Charles had become the only effective opposition to the then all-powerful Labour government.
article_snippet: So will Charles now go quiet?