The Latest Breaking News from Tony Blair

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 · Nov 9, 2024

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 · Nov 8, 2024

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 · Nov 8, 2024

British voters do not like Trump ‘because they don’t really know him’, Farage claims – as it happened

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The Guardian - UK · Nov 8, 2024

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

The Guardian - UK · Nov 8, 2024

‘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 · Nov 7, 2024

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’

The Guardian - UK · Nov 7, 2024

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…

Evening Standard · Nov 1, 2024

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

The Independent UK · Nov 1, 2024

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 · Oct 31, 2024