The Latest Breaking News from Tony Blair

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…

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

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…

The Chancellor added that she would love to be able to call up the late Alistair Darling – the last Labour chancellor to deliver a Budget.

Booksellers reportedly left with ‘piles and piles’ of the political memoir, ‘Unleashed’