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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Simon Jeffery

Tony Blair has his own election website. Discuss

A screen grab from Tony Blair's election 2010 website, tonyblair4labour.org.
A screen grab from Tony Blair's election 2010 website, tonyblair4labour.org.

There has been some speculation over the last few days about what Tony Blair's role in Labour's general election campaign will be - he made a speech yesterday, but what follows is not clear. Well, here is something else to throw into the mix - he has his own 2010 election website.

It has been built by Blue State Digital, who worked on the Barack Obama campaign (and are generally quite happy to turn up to internet election conferences and talk about it), and other post-Downing Street Blair tech projects for his Faith Foundation and work in the Middle East.

The site has news, videos, some social media functionality ... but still, a Tony Blair election website in 2010? Anyone checked what John Major's up to this time around? Wasn't being the thinly disguised inspiration for the new Roman Polanksi film enough?

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