‘If you have a safe place to go then you should go there’ Former Prime Minister of UK Tony Blair said to Muammar Gaddafi on the phone when his regime began to collapse.

The conversation between Mr Blair and Gaddafi was made public as part of the latest emails released from when Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State in response to a freedom of information request.

This message is dated February 25, 2011 and was sent by Mr Blair’s head of strategy Catherine Rimmer to Jake Sullivan, Mrs Clinton’s former top foreign policy adviser, who sent it on to her.

There was no mention of facing justice and instead Mr. Blair wanted to make a deal for Gaddafi.

This phone call sheds some light on the controversial relations of the former Prime Minister and Gaddafi  as well as on the critisicm he had received over his infamous ‘Deal in the desert’ in 2004 which secured lucrative oil deals for BP and ended Libya’s international isolation.