Tony Blair

Police probe Labour ex-minister’s expenses after he paid £30,000 salary to a long-term friend

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Police probe Labour ex-minister’s expenses after he paid £30,000-per-year salary to a long-term friend who was working in his office aged 89 Scotland Yard has launched criminal investigatio into expenses of ex-Labour MP Police began probe into Geoffrey Robinson over £30k salary paid to his friend Mail on Sunday previously reported Robinson’s alleged spying for … Read more

How Boris Johnson is the fourth prime minister in 150 years to welcome a baby into Number 10 

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Boris Johnson will become only the fourth prime minister in 150 years to welcome a baby into Number 10 Boris Johnson is not the first Prime Minister to welcome a baby into No 10  The Tory leader follows in the footsteps of David Cameron and Tony Blair  Mr Cameron welcome daughter Florence in Truro hospital … Read more

No 10 adviser Dominic Cummings ‘asked Boris Johnson to give him special powers in Downing Street’

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Dominic Cummings asked Boris Johnson to grant him special powers in Downing Street which have made him more powerful than the PM’s special advisers. The assistant to the Prime Minister is understood to have a document – signed by Mr Johnson – stating that he has control over certain government projects. The agreement has little … Read more

Ex-No10 spin doctor Alastair Campbell should rejoin Labour, says Keir Starmer

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Alastair Campbell should be allowed to rejoin Labour, says Keir Starmer: Leadership hopeful claims ex-No10 spin doctor was treated worse than party activists facing anti-Semitism allegations when he was expelled by Jeremy Corbyn’s allies Keir Starmer has suggested Alastair Campbell should be able to rejoin Labour Leadership frontrunner says ex-No10 spin doctor had made ‘huge … Read more

Boris Johnson will spend more than Tony Blair if Chancellor’s Budget pushes figure above £1trillion

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Boris Johnson will spend more than Tony Blair if Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Budget pushes figure above £1trillion, analysis shows Boris Johnson will splurge more than Tony Blair did during his decade in power Government expenditure set to rise to 40 per cent of gross domestic product Increase would lift annual expenditure above £1trillion within four … Read more

Don’t let Labour become a Trans rights pressure group or it will never win power, warns Tony Blair

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Tony Blair warned Labour not to get dragged into a ‘culture war’ over trans rights today, warning the party’s potential leaders it could cost them the keys to Downing Street. The triple election-winning former prime minister said that fixating on the fringe issue risked putting ‘a whole load of people off’ when it needs to … Read more

ANDREW GREEN: Yes, he’s listened. But if Boris isn’t careful reforms could lead to MORE immigration

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Nearly 20 years ago, I set up the think tank Migration Watch UK to give a voice to many of us who were concerned, not about immigration itself, but about the sheer scale of it, which seemed to be running out of control. Indeed it was. Tony Blair’s ‘reforms’ at the turn of the century … Read more

Alastair Campbell’s daughter Grace has spent life ‘competing with Tony Blair for dad’s attention’

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Alastair Campbell’s comedian daughter Grace has claimed she’s spent her life competing for her father’s attention with Tony Blair. The 25-year-old, whose Yorkshire-born father served as the Downing Street press secretary as New Labour began to take shape in the mid-1990s, recalled spending much of her childhood at Number 10. As a result she spent a … Read more