The Blairs’ former lifestyle adviser Carole Caplin has accepted substantial libel damages from Daily Mail publisher Associated Newspapers on the same day she claimed to be a victim of phone-hacking at the News of the World.

Caplin, 49, sued the Daily Mail over a September 2010 article headlined: “Carole’s £1m question: Will she tell all about the Blairs’ sex secrets?”.

The article said that Caplin was planning to reveal intimate details about Tony and Cherie Blair’s relationship in a new book for a ‘substantial sum”, and that it might ‘lift the lid on their marriage and finish the Blairs”.