The Latest Breaking News from Tony Blair

ASK ME ANYTHING: In this exclusive Q&A session, The Independent’s political commentator Andrew Grice addresses key dynamics in the Tory leadership race, and what we can expect when Kemi Badenoch or Robert Jenrick takes the helm

An 18 per cent year-on-year rise in rough sleeping drags mayor Sadiq Khan further from his target of eliminating street homelessness in London by 2030

Claire Reynolds, the director of Labour Women’s Network, will take on task of liaison between No 10, party and MPs

Hamish Falconer says legislation under consideration by Knesset is ‘neither in Israel’s interest nor realistic’

A debate about reparations for Britain’s role in the slave trade overshadowed a summit in Samoa of the Commonwealth, many of whose member nations were once British colonies

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Sir Tony Blair discusses peace-making, Brexit and Keir Starmer’s premiership in wide-ranging London Standard interview

The chancellor is planning to change the government’s fiscal rules to free up billions of pounds of borrowing, which she will promise to spend laying ‘the foundations of future growth’

I am starting to wonder if Keir Starmer is naïve or foolish, or both. Presenting himself as a seasoned technocrat, he has shown himself to be embarrassingly callow in the political arts: first, by announcing in isolation, significant cuts to the winter fuel allowance; second, by so woefully handling the…