A senior US official said the president needed a ‘dose of reality’ to deal with Iraqi insurgents, documents revealTony Blair’s advisers privately questioned if the US had “proper political control”...
Read MoreCabinet was split over east European countries joining in 2004, with some ‘extremely concerned’ by its implicationsSenior figures in Tony Blair’s government, including John Prescott and Jack Straw, urged the...
Read MoreBiographer says government departments give contradictory refusals to requests and accuses them of ‘cover up’Researchers have called for greater transparency from the Foreign Office over the files it holds on the...
Read MoreNewly released documents show senior official accepted that Rosemary Nelson should have been offered helpThe murdered solicitor Rosemary Nelson should have been offered protection by the Northern Ireland Office (NIO), a senior...
Read MoreFormer politicians pay tribute after files show ‘Labour’s most successful leader’ was forced to consider selling legacy to pay for his dementia careMargaret Thatcher described him as “the most skilful of...
Read MoreEx-Labour leader initially planned to sell personal and political documents to Canadian university for £212,500The former UK prime minister Harold Wilson agreed to sell his archive of private papers to help fund his care,...
Read MoreTensions over Palestinian death toll have eerie parallels to western concerns about current Israeli operationsTony Blair’s government accused Israeli forces of acting more like the “Russian army than that of a...
Read MoreDocuments recording request from monarch to keep secret the will of a relative partly withdrawn from public viewStaff at Britain’s National Archives have censored documents that show how the late Queen Elizabeth II...
Read MoreArchives reveal confidential letters exchanged by prime minister and SDP leader that shed light on a Kremlin espionage rowA confidential exchange of letters, released after 30 years of government secrecy, between former prime...
Read MoreReport set out ‘radical measures’ to reduce numbers arriving, including setting up holding camps on Scottish island of MullSending asylum seekers to holding camps on the Scottish island of Mull and removing them to...
Read MoreGovernment papers released to National Archives show animosity between broadcaster and No 10 in early 2000sThe former No 10 spin doctor Alastair Campbell suggested setting lawyers on the BBC, while Tony Blair was warned to...
Read MoreReclusive billionaire twins notorious for use of tax havens met then prime minister Tony Blair in 1999The reclusive super-rich twins Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay, who became notorious for their use of tax havens to manage...
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