The Latest Breaking News from Tony Blair

Adidas trainers appear to be Keir Starmer’s answer to the PM’s Timberlands as he rekindles the spirit of dressed-down Blairism

Former prime minister Tony Blair has called for more taxes on junk food to tackle the UK’s obesity crisis. This includes extending sugar taxes beyond just soft drinks, as well as taxing food that is high in salt and fat. Blair also called for restrictions on advertising unhealthy food.

The former premier said criticism of Sir Keir Starmer’s policy offering as too bland was ‘nonsense’.

‘There’s an incredibly strong hierarchical power structure on a TV show,’ he says

Party off to promising start to new parliamentary term but knows it cannot be complacent

Senior Labour official and historian who was instrumental in the party’s general election victory in 1997

Marin, who stepped down as leader of the Social Democrats after finishing third in April’s election, to resign as MP

Role preparing for election will see McFadden shape party’s direction, but it is likely to be done quietly

Labour’s shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has said that a Labour government would not raises taxes on wealth, capital gains or higher incomes. She does not, she says, see “the way to prosperity as being through taxation.”