Archives reveal options considered by Tony Blair’s government for dealing with Zimbabwean dictator in 2004The Foreign Office cautioned against UK military intervention to overthrow the former Zimbabwean president Robert...
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Read MoreTony Blair was told that tensions with his then chancellor would need to be carefully managed, files reveal‘Too complacent’: how Blair’s advisers misjudged his disastrous WI speechPeter Mandelson warned Tony...
Read MoreThe prosecutions of 95 miners charged with riot and unlawful assembly in 1985 collapsed amid accusations of police officers lying in courtMinisters have announced an inquiry into the violent policing at Orgreave and the...
Read MoreMove follows decades of campaigning over violent policing and collapsed prosecutions at South Yorkshire coking plantMore than four decades after the violent policing at Orgreave during the miners’ strike and a failed...
Read MoreMiner who was seen on TV being beaten by officer said he was not aware of report’s existence before it was destroyedDocuments destroyed by police relating to operations at Orgreave during the miners’ strike in 1984...
Read MoreRachel Reeves’s distress may help destigmatise emotional response to stress or professional frustrationRachel Reeves’s tears this week triggered a fall in the pound and attracted widespread derision from political...
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Read MoreWith Reeves looking set to approve the contested expansion, here is a timeline of 21 years of changing policyThe saga of Heathrow’s third runway has been continuing for decades, with ministerial resignations, U-turns from...
Read MoreFormer German chancellor’s book tells how she tried to help David Cameron win over Britain’s EuroscepticsAngela Merkel has said she was “tormented” over the result of the Brexit referendum and viewed it...
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