Category: Tony Blair

Farage reported to parliament’s standards watchdog over undeclared £5m donation – UK politics live

Farage was given £5m by the Thai-based billionaire Christopher Harborne shortly before announcing he would stand in the 2024 general electionExclusive: Farage was given undisclosed £5m by crypto billionaire in...

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Farage reported to parliament’s standards watchdog over undeclared £5m donation, as Tories say ‘this stinks’ – UK politics live

Farage was given £5m by the Thai-based billionaire Christopher Harborne shortly before announcing he would stand in the 2024 general electionExclusive: Farage was given undisclosed £5m by crypto billionaire in...

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Starmer to face Badenoch at final PMQs before recess – UK politics live

On Tuesday, Starmer saw off a major Labour rebellion over a bid to force a parliamentary investigation into his appointment of Peter MandelsonNigel Farage has said that he agrees with Tony Blair on the need for significant...

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Starmer implies he didn’t tell Trump he was ‘fed up’ about his impact on rising UK energy bills – UK politics live

Prime minister says conversation with US president on Thursday night focused on need for ‘practical plan’ to open strait of HormuzTony Blair, the former Labour prime minister, has joined those saying the government...

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Ed Miliband’s stock is rising because he’s a rare commodity in Labour these days: a thinker | Gaby Hinsliff

The party seems to have woken up to its need for an old-style intellectual heavyweight to counter the vacuousness of recent yearsNature famously abhors a vacuum. So when Morgan McSweeney departed government, leaving a hole where...

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Tony Blair’s thinktank accuses Ed Miliband of driving up energy prices

Report by Tony Blair Institute urges government to drop some green policies amid criticism of decarbonisation goalTony Blair’s thinktank has accused Ed Miliband of driving up energy prices in his push to make...

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The world of today looks bad, but take hope: we’ve been here before and got through it – and we will again | Martin Kettle

As I write my last regular column for the Guardian, my thoughts turn to the lessons and hope we can take from historyFrom Greenland’s icy mountains, from India’s coral strand, as the old hymn has it, we seem to...

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Blair pressured officials over case of UK soldiers accused of beating Iraqi man to death, files show

Then PM wrote on note from aide in 2005 that case ‘must not’ be dealt with in civil court, archives revealTony Blair put pressure on officials to ensure that British soldiers accused of beating an Iraqi man to death...

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