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Keir Starmer disowns top Blair adviser over ‘we don’t need small farmers’ rant

John McTernan, who served as Tony Blair’s political secretary, sparked fury as he said family farming is ‘an industry we can do without’

The Independent UK

Immigration: How British Politics Failed review – every one of these politicians is unbearable

From Nigel Farage to Suella Braverman and Tony Blair, the bloviating talking heads in this documentary give a good sense of how immigration policy became polluted by racism

The Guardian - UK

Shoot to Kill: Terror on the Tube review – an extraordinary look at how Jean Charles de Menezes was killed

This mesmerising docuseries is full of astonishing interviews as it examines the Metropolitan police shooting of an innocent man – two weeks after the London bombings and terrorist threats of July 2005

The Guardian - UK

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King leads nation’s tribute to war dead as Kate watches ceremony from balcony

The Queen was missing from the ceremony in Whitehall, London, through illness.

The Independent UK

Former prime ministers Boris Johnson and Tony Blair attend Remembrance Day ceremony

A host of former UK prime ministers including Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak, David Cameron, Liz Truss, and Tony Blair joined the Royal Family and military personnel at the Cenotaph today (10 November), to mark Remebrance Day.

The Independent UK

King lays wreath at Cenotaph as nation falls silent in remembrance

The Princess of Wales watched on from a balcony over Whitehall.

The Independent UK

Voices: The Return of the Blairites: Why Keir Starmer should tap into Labour’s past

COMMENT: The prime minister may not be New Labour by instinct, but he has proved to be ruthless – and willing to learn from his party’s past success, John Rentoul writes

The Independent UK

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NHS crisis ‘a million times worse’ than under Tony Blair, former health secretary warns

Alan Milburn said the NHS needs to be weaned off what he said was a ‘more, more, more’ culture

The Independent UK

NHS in ‘last-chance saloon’, says former health secretary Alan Milburn

Milburn set to take senior health department role and says crisis is ‘million times worse’ than when he was in office

The Guardian - UK

NHS must be weaned off ‘more, more, more’ culture, warns Alan Milburn

The former health secretary has been appointed to a senior Department of Health and Social Care position by Wes Streeting.

The Independent 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

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

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 National (Scotland)

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

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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.

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Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie calls Blur's Alex James a 'social climber'

Bobby Gillespie claims the different between himself and Blur's Alex James is the fact he's never tried to be a "social climber".

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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AI may displace 3m jobs but long-term losses ‘relatively modest’, says Tony Blair’s thinktank

Rise in unemployment in low hundreds of thousands as technology creates roles, Tony Blair Institute suggests

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‘Smash the gangs’ is just Keir Starmer’s version of ‘stop the boats’. It won’t solve the migrant crisis

The PM echoes Tony Blair in his pledge to be tough on crime – but he is less interested in the causes behind the Channel crossings, says Enver Solomon, chief executive of the Refugee Council

The Guardian - UK

Angela Rayner says she discussed enhancing UK-US special relationship in call with JD Vance – as it happened

Deputy prime minister says she spoke with vice president-elect about ‘plans for the future and working together’

Evening Standard

OPINION - America's vicious election shows the surprising virtue of... apathy

My all-time favourite “line to take” – that is, the set of pre-agreed talking points politicians stick to – came from general election night 2001. Tony Blair’s Labour Party was romping towards a second successive landslide, and the media was searching for a more interesting story. Turns out, it was…

The Independent UK

Voices: ‘The new Thatcher or the new Truss?’ 10 of your burning Tory leadership questions answered

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

Evening Standard

Rough sleeping in London hits new record high during first months of Labour Government

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

Evening Standard

OPINION - Rachel Reeves's £40bn of tax rises sets up the dividing line for the next election

Ask two Blairites when the New Labour project died, and you might get three different answers. The first is June 2007, when Tony Blair stood down as prime minister. The second is May 2008, when the party ran a class-based (and unsuccessful) campaign at the Crewe and Nantwich by-election. While…

The National (Scotland)

Keir Starmer appoints former Tony Blair aide as new No 10 political director

Keir Starmer has appointed a former aide to Sir Tony Blair and Gordon Brown as his new political director ...

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