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Tony Blair tried to steer speech for Gerry Adams on IRA disarmament

Mr Blair called on the IRA to provide clarity on ‘three questions’ around disarmament.

The Independent UK

Northern Ireland secretary aware of Stormontgate ‘for months’, records reveal

Stormontgate in 2002 led to the suspension of devolution and the reintroduction of direct rule in Northern Ireland.

Evening Standard

Keir Starmer’s chief of staff met Trump team earlier this month

Morgan McSweeney flew to Florida and Washington for meetings with key members of president-elect’s team

The Guardian - UK

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Keir Starmer’s new delivery targets are intended to give an electric jolt to Whitehall

The view in Number 10 is that work on the government’s missions has been too sluggish and now needs to be driven harder and faster

The Guardian - UK

Voices: Blairites are in despair over Keir Starmer’s flailing leadership

COMMENT: A person close to the former PM said the current government is like a bunch of unimaginative ‘librarians and academics’ but, writes John Rentoul, for some Starmer is not just a librarian or an academic but a funeral director

The Independent UK

Starmer faces ‘total humiliation’ with Chagos deal on brink of collapse

Exclusive: The Chagos Islands deal is facing a crucial 48 hours with the new Mauritius government’s cabinet expected to look at whether to stick with the deal on Friday

The Independent UK

UK government seeks meeting with Trump team over Chagos Islands agreement

National security adviser will travel to Washington in attempt to persuade US president-elect not to rip up deal

The Guardian - UK

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Trump’s team concerned Starmer will complete Chagos Islands deal before inauguration

Exclusive: The row deepens as Keir Starmer’s envoy flies into Mauritius today to hold talks with their prime minister about completing the Chagos Islands deal

The Independent UK

As Trump pushes Ukraine to negotiate, Britain’s MPs say UK must ensure ‘just terms’

Volodymyr Zelenskyy is aiming to reach a peace deal with Russia next year as his backers signal that they are preparing for talks

The Guardian - UK

Sue Gray’s final departure marks the moment that the Starmer project gets serious

The prime minister has finally grasped that Downing Street must control the narrative, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The Guardian - UK

Starmer tells Cabinet Government will deliver ‘innovation and reform’

It came on the same day it was announced that two former advisers to Sir Tony Blair had been given senior jobs in Whitehall.

Evening Standard

Liz Lloyd responds as 'Liz Lloyd' gets top job with Keir Starmer

WILL the real Liz Lloyd please stand up?

The National (Scotland)

Relations between Ukraine and UK are worse under Labour, say Kyiv officials

Exclusive: Zelenskyy administration expresses frustration with Starmer over lack of missiles

The Guardian - UK

Starmer’s new national security adviser wants ‘relaxed attitude’ to terrorists in bid to end conflict

Jonathan Powell said the UK could play a role in ending conflict through compromise, as in Northern Ireland

The Independent UK

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Tony Blair’s former chief of staff appointed to top role by Keir Starmer

KEIR Starmer has appointed Tony Blair’s former chief of staff to a top role in the Government ...

The Guardian - UK

Tony Blair’s former chief of staff appointed PM’s national security adviser

Jonathan Powell led talks on Chagos Islands in September and played key role in Good Friday agreement

The Independent UK

Starmer appoints senior Blair-era aide Powell as National Security Adviser

Jonathan Powell will take over from Sir Tim Barrow in the role based in 10 Downing Street, the Cabinet Office said.

The Guardian - UK

British voters do not like Trump ‘because they don’t really know him’, Farage claims – as it happened

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The Guardian - UK

Who are the key New Labour figures in Keir Starmer’s government?

The PM is surrounded by Blairites, from Pat McFadden and Liz Kendall to Jacqui Smith and Jonathan Powell

The Conversation

Why the Labour government has run aground so quickly – and what it needs to do to get back on course

Many prime ministers at some point find themselves in a situation where nothing they do seems to go right. It happened to Jim Callaghan in the late 1970s, to Gordon Brown in the 2000s and to every Conservative prime minister since 2019.

Evening Standard

What is the Chagos Islands deal? As Trump slams the UK deal

Everything you need to know about the Chagos Islands deal

The Independent UK

Fears over future of Falklands after Chagos Islands deal dubbed ‘strategic disaster’

Exclusive: A group of indigenous Chagossians are planning to stage a protest over the decision to hand the archipelago over to Mauritius, The Independent understands, accusing the government of excluding them from talks

Evening Standard

Chagos Islands row: Keir Starmer insists deal with Mauritius safeguards 'hugely important' base

Envoy Jonathan Powell also slams critics of the pact, which he says was first negotiated by the Tories, stressing it’s ‘rubbish’ to claim China will benefit

Evening Standard

Tony Blair’s former chief-of-staff Jonathan Powell made special envoy for Chagos Islands sovereignty talks

Key issue for the UK and the US is retaining the military base on the island of Diego Garcia

The Guardian - UK

Tony Blair’s new dawn of 1997 offers landslide lessons for Keir Starmer

The Guardian’s political editor in 1997 recalls the optimism then and what went wrong in the transition from opposition to power

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