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Tony Blair’s former chief of staff appointed to top role by Keir Starmer

KEIR Starmer has appointed Tony Blair’s former chief of staff to a top role in the Government ...

The National (Scotland)

Tony Blair’s former chief of staff appointed PM’s national security adviser

Jonathan Powell led talks on Chagos Islands in September and played key role in Good Friday agreement

The Guardian - UK

Starmer appoints senior Blair-era aide Powell as National Security Adviser

Jonathan Powell will take over from Sir Tim Barrow in the role based in 10 Downing Street, the Cabinet Office said.

The Independent UK

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British voters do not like Trump ‘because they don’t really know him’, Farage claims – as it happened

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The Guardian - UK

Who are the key New Labour figures in Keir Starmer’s government?

The PM is surrounded by Blairites, from Pat McFadden and Liz Kendall to Jacqui Smith and Jonathan Powell

The Guardian - UK

Why the Labour government has run aground so quickly – and what it needs to do to get back on course

Many prime ministers at some point find themselves in a situation where nothing they do seems to go right. It happened to Jim Callaghan in the late 1970s, to Gordon Brown in the 2000s and to every Conservative prime minister since 2019.

The Conversation

Where are the Chagos Islands, why has the UK given them to Mauritius and what about the Falklands?

The African island nation will assume sovereignty over the archipelago – minus a military base – but the UK government has denied claims the deal could cost £18 billion

Evening Standard

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Fears over future of Falklands after Chagos Islands deal dubbed ‘strategic disaster’

Exclusive: A group of indigenous Chagossians are planning to stage a protest over the decision to hand the archipelago over to Mauritius, The Independent understands, accusing the government of excluding them from talks

The Independent UK

Chagos Islands row: Keir Starmer insists deal with Mauritius safeguards 'hugely important' base

Envoy Jonathan Powell also slams critics of the pact, which he says was first negotiated by the Tories, stressing it’s ‘rubbish’ to claim China will benefit

Evening Standard

Tony Blair’s former chief-of-staff Jonathan Powell made special envoy for Chagos Islands sovereignty talks

Key issue for the UK and the US is retaining the military base on the island of Diego Garcia

Evening Standard

Tony Blair’s new dawn of 1997 offers landslide lessons for Keir Starmer

The Guardian’s political editor in 1997 recalls the optimism then and what went wrong in the transition from opposition to power

The Guardian - UK

Rwanda-style asylum plan was ‘nuclear option’ for Blair in 2003, records reveal

Report set out ‘radical measures’ to reduce numbers arriving, including setting up holding camps on Scottish island of Mull

The Guardian - UK

Tony Blair aides had asylum camp plan for Scottish island, records show

TONY Blair’s Labour government considered setting up a holding camp in Mull in a bid to drive down the number of asylum seekers entering the UK,…

The National (Scotland)

Tony Blair considered sending asylum seekers to a camp on the Isle of Mull, documents reveal

‘We must not allow the ECHR to stop us dealing with [illegal migration],’ Sir Tony Blair said

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The Independent UK

Trust revokes woodland access for Charlotte Church’s school after ‘health and safety breaches’

The singer set up the Awen Project with her husband Jonathan Powell in 2019 to ‘tranform education’ for children

USA Today Sports Media Group

Watch: Highlights for sharpshooter Jonathan Powell, 4-star Xavier commit

Xavier landed one of the top shooters in the class of 2024 on Wednesday.

Al Jazeera

The Sudan crisis: A power struggle by design

How do the rival Sudanese army and the paramilitary RSF stack up against each other, and what might happen next?

The Independent UK

Top Blair aide warned George Bush’s White House was full of ‘f***ing lunatics’ who spelled disaster for UK

Blair’s chief of staff made claim three years before UK backed US invasion of Iraq, new book claims

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Spartans Headlines: Charles Brantley withdraws from transfer portal, will return to MSU

Catch up on all of the notable Spartans headlines from Tuesday

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MSU basketball makes top six list for 4-star, top 100 Ohio SG Jonathan Powell

Michigan State basketball is one of six schools still in the running for a top 100 recruit in the 2024 class

The Guardian - UK

Haiti: at least 12 suspected criminals beaten to death and burned in capital

Footage shows men forced to lie on street by police before being killed and set on fire in broad daylight

USA Today Sports Media Group

Michigan State basketball: Who’s next in the 2024 recruiting class

MSU already has 2 commits in their 2024 recruiting class, check out who could be next:

The Independent UK

Unionism needs to ‘give itself a shake’ over Stormont return – Gerry Adams

The former Sinn Fein leader spoke to the media with Bertie Ahern and Jonathan Powell at a conference in Belfast.

The Independent UK

How Blair’s ‘dodgy dossier’ was changed after Independent reporter spotted flaw in case for war

Veteran political reporter Donald Macintyre reveals how his claim that Saddam was ‘bad but not mad enough’ to start conflict caused alarm in No 10

The Conversation

Sue Gray quitting to work for Keir Starmer does cause problems for the civil service – it's also a sign she thinks he's heading for government

The last few years of drama at Westminster have set the bar pretty high for shock and surprise, but the sudden departure from government of Sue Gray, second permanent secretary to the Cabinet Office, and her proposed appointment as chief of staff to the leader of the Labour Party really…

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