The Latest Breaking News from Tony Blair

With more spending going to defence, the latest budget cut will take Britain’s aid contribution to its lowest for a quarter of a century

Winston Churchill coined the phrase to describe what has become an enduring diplomatic priority, but relationships between leaders have varied.

COMMENT: The prime minister has set out a restrictive approach to immigration in a memo to cabinet ministers – making clear that he sees Reform, not the Conservatives, as the threat at the next election, writes John Rentoul

Plans for the UK and other European countries to send troops to Ukraine are in their very early stages. But the UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, will already be thinking about how such a move could play out at home. Sending UK troops abroad, even on a “peacekeeping” mission, always…

"Sir Keir Starmer has managed to dodge becoming Britain's worst Prime Minister - all thanks to one controversial Conservative leader - in yet another humiliating polling blow."

COMMENT: The prime minister is convinced he can charm the unpredictable US president when the pair meet next week in Washington – but Westminster is less sure of his chances, with some insiders suggesting the pledge to put British peacekeeping forces in Ukraine has now turned European allies again him,…

The Labour leader is only polling ahead of Liz Truss in a list of recent prime ministers

Ellison is a Republican donor and friends with Trump’s federal cost-cutter Elon Musk.

Tony Blair’s former spin doctor cited The Independent’s front page as told Labour that the facts were the way to take on Brexiteers like Boris Johnson and Reform UK’s Nigel Farage