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    • Monday, 13 November, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Blair open to humanitarian role in Gaza

      Reports in Israel claim that Benjamin Netanyahu would like former UK PM to work as a ‘co-ordinator’

      Tony Blair
    • Sunday, 22 October, 2023
      UK regional policy
      Former UK prime ministers back cross-party approach to regional mayors

      John Major, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown call for end to ‘chopping and changing’ over devolution, according to Ed Balls review

      Ed Balls
    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
      Interview
      Labour cannot fix UK through tax and spend, says Tony Blair

      Former prime minister warns Keir Starmer will face a country ‘in a mess’ if he wins the next election

      Tony Blair
    • Saturday, 2 September, 2023
      Labour Party UK
      Starmer’s Labour has ‘a lot to learn’ from Blair, Reeves says

      Party’s platform must differ from New Labour era because it faces different circumstances, shadow chancellor says

      shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves
    • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
      Inside Politics
      Starmer bets on growth

      Tony Blair appears to pass baton to Labour leader, who acknowledges today’s economic woes pose greater challenges

      Keir Starmer gestures with hand
    • Friday, 14 July, 2023
      FT MagazineRobert Shrimsley
      Tony Blair still defines the UK political playbook

      George Osborne’s wedding guests aren’t the only ones still dancing to New Labour’s tune

    • Friday, 7 July, 2023
      French politics
      The French riots and what works when it comes to social unrest

      Specific measures are needed for a section of society that defies conventional policymaking

      A rioter walks among burning rubble
    • Wednesday, 5 July, 2023
      Labour Party UK
      Keir Starmer is no Tony Blair. The differences are not all obvious

      Opposition party today faces much bleaker economic outlook than former Labour leader, while its intellectual positions are different too

      Labour leader Keir Starmer talks to media in Selby, England
    • Wednesday, 21 June, 2023
      Robert Shrimsley
      Tony Blair’s unfinished business with Britain

      His TBI think-tank has in effect become a global consultancy to the government

      Illustration of a huge Tony Blair head sticking out of a little tank, with the words ‘Tony’s think-tank’ written on the side
    • Monday, 17 April, 2023
      Northern Ireland
      Key players in N Ireland peace deal urge DUP to end Stormont boycott

      Region’s political parties need to do ‘the right thing’, says Tony Blair, 25 years on from historic GFA

      George Mitchell, former US senator, who chaired the peace talks
    • Tuesday, 11 April, 2023
      Northern Ireland
      Biden will use Northern Ireland trip to ‘keep the peace’

      Visit by US president could resolve power-sharing stalemate, according to architects of 1998 peace deal

      Joe Biden arrives in Northern Ireland on Tuesday evening, with Rishi Sunak
    • Friday, 7 April, 2023
      News in-depthNorthern Ireland
      Northern Ireland celebrates its imperfect peace accord

      The Good Friday Agreement ended the region’s conflict but has struggled to underpin political stability

    • Friday, 30 December, 2022
      National Archives
      Blair argued Putin deserved a seat at the ‘top table’

      Newly released files show the UK premier’s efforts to woo the Russian president despite deep misgivings of officials

      Tony Blair with Vladimir Putin in London in 2000
    • Friday, 30 December, 2022
      National Archives
      Blair intervened in US-China spy plane dispute

      Labour PM sought to cultivate links with Bush and strengthen UK relations with Beijing in aftermath of 2001 crash

      The damaged US EP-3 aircraft on Hainan island in June 2001
    • Friday, 30 December, 2022
      National Archives
      Blair explored plans to ‘break’ Opec to cut oil prices, files reveal

      Senior officials discussed regime change in Iraq and encouraging countries to leave the cartel

      Tony Blair in 2002
    • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
      ReviewTheatre
      Tony! (The Tony Blair Rock Opera) — a premier painted in broad strokes

      This lively show at the Park Theatre, London, is an unsubtle portrait of the Labour leader

      Two very confident-looking men stand smiling with their arms folded
    • Wednesday, 4 May, 2022
      Robert Shrimsley
      What Labour still needs to learn from Tony Blair, 25 years on

      If Keir Starmer fails to define himself as his predecessor did, the party’s opponents will do it for him

      Ellie Foreman-Peck illustration of Keir Starmer looking behind his shoulder to see Tony Blair as his giant shadow hanging high above his head looking angrily at him
    • Thursday, 6 January, 2022
      National Archives
      Clinton calls twice broke deadlock in Good Friday talks, papers reveal

      Last-minute intervention by former US president rescued peace deal at critical point in 1998 negotiations

    • Tuesday, 4 January, 2022
      Labour Party UK
      Keir Starmer defends Tony Blair as Labour continues shift to centre

      Opposition leader highlights patriotism and ‘contract’ with voters in new year speech

    • Thursday, 30 December, 2021
      National Archives
      Paddy Ashdown suggested ‘hemispherical’ House of Commons in 1998

      Papers show that former Lib Dem leader also tried to court Ken Clarke into cross-party co-operation with Tony Blair

      Prime Minister Tony Blair, right, and Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown pictured in June 1998 after coming to an agreement on constitutional reform
    • Thursday, 30 December, 2021
      National Archives
      Clinton-Lewinsky affair was seen as ‘major opportunity’ for Blair on 1998 US visit

      Former PM seized chance to capitalise on attention generated by White House scandal, papers show

      Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky
    • Thursday, 30 December, 2021
      National Archives
      Tony Blair blocked action on Macpherson report on UK race relations

      Private memos show Number 10 pushback thwarted plan by Jack Straw to launch white paper on improving race relations

      Sir William Macpherson
    • Saturday, 9 October, 2021
      Janan Ganesh
      Blair, Brown and the treachery of appearances

      A flawed documentary shows how we love to put people in boxes

    • Wednesday, 6 October, 2021
      International tax
      From Panama to the Pandora papers: what’s changed in offshore tax

      The rich and powerful continue to evade and avoid tax despite progress in recent years

    • Sunday, 3 October, 2021
      Tax evasion and avoidance
      Massive data leak exposes hidden wealth of world leaders

      Report by media consortium outlines how the wealthy use tax havens to move and store money

      King Abdullah II of Jordan speaks at the UN in New York in September
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