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Tony Blair says he is all about the future – but his vision is woefully stuck in the past

He insists he is so right but gets so much badly wrong, not least the absurdity that the UK should have joined Donald Trump in the quagmire that is Iran, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The Guardian - UK

The less we hear from Tony Blair, the better

Letters: Readers respond to coverage of an essay by the former Labour prime minister attacking the party’s current leadership and policies

The Guardian - UK

Tony Blair is back and he's seriously serious about getting serious

We have a guest column from the politician everyone’s been talking about for the last 30 years: Tony Blair.

The National (Scotland)

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Digested week: Is it pedantic to point out Trump is ‘ending’ a war he started?

Plus, Nicola Sturgeon’s marital relations, the hell of burnout, Tony Blair’s saviour complex and Spurs

The Guardian - UK

Former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson announces cancer has returned

The Labour peer was initially diagnosed with non-aggressive prostate cancer in March 2023

The Independent UK

Meta Ramsay: The British intelligence pioneer who could have been MI6’s first female ‘C’

Labour peer was a senior agent during the height of the Cold War

The Independent UK

Andy Burnham addresses ‘gaping omission’ in Tony Blair’s 5,600-word essay

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Tributes pour in for MI6 ‘trailblazer’ Baroness Meta Ramsay

Her tenure included participation in the 1985 extraction of KGB double agent Oleg Gordievsky from the Soviet Union

The Independent UK

Meta Ramsay: the spy who could have been MI6’s first female ‘C’

After a 22-year career in intelligence she became a Labour minister in the Lords, helping to steer Scottish devolution.

Evening Standard

If you’re serious about growth – you need to be serious about women

IN FOCUS: Everyone is talking about scaling up – but no one is mentioning those who can really make it happen, says finance leader Sam Cooper-Gray. There is one cohort that could generate over £50bn a year for the British economy, if only those in charge would pay a bit…

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer defends approach to AI and energy in response to Tony Blair’s essay

The Prime Minister penned an almost 3,000-word-long post published to Substack on Thursday, responding to Sir Tony Blair’s essay.

Evening Standard

Burnham positions himself as the reformed Blairite – but will that work in Makerfield?

NEWS ANALYSIS: Political editor David Maddox looks at the contradictory nature of Andy Burnham’s response to Tony Blair

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer defends policy choices in rebuttal of Blair’s criticism

PM says predecessor misunderstands government’s successes and ‘very different’ situation compared with 1997

The Guardian - UK

Zack Polanski demands transparency amid concerns over Tony Blair's AI lobbying

Zack Polanski has urged the UK Government to be transparent amid concerns over the links between its AI policy and the Tony Blair Institute ...

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In defence of the songs of my youth

Brief letters: Party tunes of 1973 | Tim Winton’s Juice | Remembering times tables | Labour’s priorities | Tony Blair and irony

The Guardian - UK

Alan Milburn is right, a young generation has been betrayed. Forget Tony Blair: we must attend to this

The new and excoriating account of the dire prospects for UK young people is a call to action. It could be the Beveridge report for our time, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Independent UK

Life for Britons is much harder than it used to be – and Blair has ignored that, says Burnham

The party’s most successful former leader and prime minister has issued a scathing indictment of Labour

Evening Standard

Fact check: Defence vs benefits, church attack video and advantage of sunglasses

Round-up of fact checks from the last few days compiled by Full Fact.

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The Independent UK

Blair is wrong about my government, Starmer says, as he hits back over Labour criticism

Prime minister ‘doesn’t agree with much’ of Sir Tony Blair’s scathing 5,700-word essay

The Independent UK

Reversing minimum wage changes is no ‘easy solution’ to end Britain’s Neet crisis, Milburn warns

The former Labour minister warned against solely blaming the chancellor for the scale of the crisis facing the nation

The Independent UK

Starmer says he is ‘vindicated’ by change in rebuff to Blair criticism

The former Labour prime minister launched a scathing attack on Sir Keir and his Government earlier this week.

The Guardian - UK

The Campaign Diary of Robert Kenyon Aged 41 and Three-Quarters (as imagined by John Crace)

What’s Carol Vorderman moaning about? All I said was how fit she was … must be going through the menopause or something

The Guardian - UK

Blair’s fossil fuel ideas ‘bizarre’ in face of energy and climate crises, experts say

Energy specialists say abandoning net zero and increasing oil and gas drilling would cause more instability for Britons

The National (Scotland)

Correction: Tony Blair and the Gaza Board of Peace

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Evening Standard

Milburn backs Blair’s criticism of policies affecting entry-level jobs

The author of a review of youth unemployment suggested the current Government should rethink an uplift in the minimum wage.

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