David Cameron has announced that he will shortly be resigning his comfy Oxfordshire safe seat, Witney. Some readers may have trouble remembering who, exactly, this sleek, flush-faced back bench Tory MP is. So let me remind you: he was until really quite
Tony Blair has said voters “have the right” to change their minds and the UK could remain inside the European Union (EU) if public opinion shifts, demanding Europhiles continue to push ‘project fear’.
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has maintained that immigration is good for Britain, and marked centre versus left and right as the new political battle lines. Mr Blair, whose premiership saw hundreds of thousands of migrants pour into Britain,
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has slammed the “catastrophe” Brexit vote and “pushing back against globalisation” whilst praising an autocratic sharia state a role model for the rest of the world.
AFP – Former British prime minister Tony Blair voiced “sorrow, regret and apology” after a damning report on the Iraq war Wednesday, but said he did not mislead parliament and did not regret toppling Saddam Hussein. “I express more sorrow,
AFP – The official inquiry into Britain’s role in the Iraq war finally reports on Wednesday, seven years after it launched, with former prime minister Tony Blair expected to face severe criticism. Relatives of some of the 179 British troops
The Former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond has hinted that Tony Blair may be tried for war crimes in a Scottish court, following the publication of the Chilcot Inquiry. Speaking ahead of the long-anticipated Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq War
Tony Blair will not be investigated and put on trial for war crimes, but British soldiers could be, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has stated. The ICC says it will closely examine the 2.3 million word Chilcot report for evidence
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has called for a pro-Remain minister to be in charge of Britain’s Brexit negotiations, in an article that will be interpreted as an offer to play a leading role in those negotiations himself. Writing in
Friday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” discussing the people of Great Britain voting to leave the European Union, former Prime Minister Tony Blair said the vote was, in part, a “popular revolt” because of “anxiety and concern” about
Using the occasion of a visit to London, American film-maker Michael Moore chose to offend his hosts by labeling the UK a “toxic place” with nothing to offer the world. The Oscar-winning documentary-maker was promoting his new film, ‘Where to Invade
BELFAST (Reuters) – Tony Blair and John Major will say on Thursday that a vote to leave the European Union on June 23 would jeopardise the unity of the United Kingdom by undermining the peace in Northern Ireland and stoking
A taxi driver has launched a hard-hitting diatribe against Britain’s political classes who he said have “killed Britain” through uncontrolled immigration, perfectly encapsulating the ‘working man versus elite’ debate at the heart of the EU referendum. Cabbie ‘Alfie’ from London’s
Tony Blair has refused to confirm he will accept the findings of Sir John Chilcot’s long-awaited report into the Iraq War, using a BBC interview to defend the decision to invade in 2003 and remove Saddam Hussein. Speaking to the BBC’s Andrew Marr, former Prime
From The Guardian: Tony Blair has said it would be a “very dangerous experiment” if Jeremy Corbyn or a populist politician like him were to form a government. In an interview with the BBC, the former Labour prime minister said populist
The Jerusalem Post reports: Regional normalization steps, alongside a regional peace process based on the Saudi initiative, could bring about the resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, former Middle East Quartet envoy Tony Blair said in London.
The much-delayed Chilcot enquiry into the Iraq war will be “absolutely brutal” in its conclusions and deliver serious “damage to [the] reputations” of former Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Labour party former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw. The 2.6 million-word report
A leading Brexit campaigner and former Minister of State for Europe has accused the Prime Minister of delaying the Iraq War inquiry report to avoid embarrassing leading Remain campaigners like Tony Blair ahead of the European Union (EU) referendum. The
Bill Clinton and Tony Blair plan to team up, and instruct the British people together to vote to remain inside to European Union (EU). The former Democratic president of the United States and once Labour Prime Minister of Britain were close
Us Magazine has published a report claiming Russian president Vladimir Putin is dating Rupert Murdoch’s ex-wife Wendi Deng in their “new couple alert” section, although the report also concedes that “reports of the pair have been floating around for years, ever since their respective divorces in 2014 and 2013.”
Tony Blair has told unemployed British workers “not to blame migrants for having taken your job” and instructed them to get a better education instead so they can “operate in the modern world”. The former Labour party leader and British
Although himself “optimistic” about the outcome and seeing some “entertainment value” in it, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair expressed concern about the United States’ presidential race today, saying European observers are experiencing a “level of anxiety” about the prospect of Donald
A new biography of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is to make a series of claims about his time in office including revelations on his handling of the Iraq War, his business dealings, and immigration policy. Tom Bower’s Broken
Uniquely among American universities, Harvard University is carving out a reputation for itself as a retirement home for failed Labour politicians, an American writer has noted. His observation follows the appointment of former shadow chancellor Ed Balls as a Senior
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has warned that support for Islamic State runs “deep into parts of Muslim societies” and that unless Britain did more to combat the threat, it faced terror attacks “worse than Paris”. Speaking at the Library of
Journalist and author, Peter Hitchens, has used his Sunday column this week to set out further his case against British involvement in military intervention in Syria. Peter Hitchens is, of course, not a pacifist. Describing himself in the Mail on
The UK Human Rights Act, enacted during the Blair government, was hailed as having brought ‘human rights home’. Today it remains a sacred piece of legislation. Any slight suggestion that the Human Rights Act is anything but good is seen as a modern
Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has finally apologised for the Iraq War – and admitted he could be partly to blame for the rise of Islamic State (ISIS). The frank confession comes after 12 years in which he steadfastly refused
Former British prime minister Tony Blair was committed to joining the United States in the Iraq war a year before the 2003 invasion, documents obtained by a Sunday newspaper suggested. The revelations focus on a memo allegedly written by former
Hillary Clinton’s right-hand State Department aide Huma Abedin took payment to plan a lavish party for clients of the private Clinton-linked consulting firm Teneo Holdings.
Contents: Tempers flare as EU leaders debate the migrant crisis; Europe looks for ways to reduce the volume of migrants; China’s Xi Jinping congratulates himself on stopping stock market crash
This week in Strasbourg there was Commission President Jean Claude-Juncker’s first State of the Union speech. He did as he said and made an intensely political speech. Most of the focus was on the current migration crisis or as Mr
Hoity-toity young pin up of the day is a London barrister called Charlotte Proudman who has achieved sudden media prominence by attempting publicly to name and shame a middle-aged solicitor who dared to pay her a compliment. Ms Proudman had
Hillary Clinton’s secret email network crashed in 2010, and the email help-desk at the State Department dismissed the problem as unimportant because they didn’t know that she used a private email address.
Tony Blair launched a secret bid to save Colonel Gaddafi shortly before the Libyan dictator was ousted, a new book claims. A biography of British Prime Minister David Cameron by historian Sir Anthony Seldon alleges that Blair called up Downing
Britain’s opposition Labour Party faces annihilation if it elects hard left lawmaker Jeremy Corbyn as its next leader, former prime minister Tony Blair said on Thursday, urging party members not to back “policies from the past”. Voting begins on Friday
Latinos probably do clean some of Donald Trump’s toilets, especially at the Trump Towers in Rio, or at the Punta Del Este resort in Uruguay. But all things considered, it’s fair to say that Kelly Osbourne’s Latino comment wasn’t actually wrong
The Westminster village is in a state of shock. In 2014 there was horror that UKIP led in the opinion polls in the run up to the European Elections. This led to a spiteful, vindictive anti-Farage campaign to tell the
U.S. Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton was asked to lobby the European Union on Tony Blair’s behalf, in addition to blasting the Conservative Party’s right wing as ‘wacky’ for opposing European Union expansionism via the Lisbon Treaty, it has been revealed.
Tony Blair and Nigel Farage need to step away from headlining their respective campaigns in the EU referendum, according to a survey for think tank British Future. Polling results seem to show that the two men risk harming their own cause
