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A spokesperson for Sir Tony Blair said he recalled that the pair’s meeting lasted ‘less than 30 minutes’.

Labour peer was sacked last month as ambassador to Washington over his links to Jeffrey Epstein

NEWS ANALYSIS: The prime minister can breathe easy after a three-day transatlantic love-in – but he must now turn his attention to problems at home, writes Millie Cooke

A Labour MP has used the emergency parliamentary debate to defend the process behind Lord Mandelson’s appointment, arguing it is no different to past failures made in the vetting of senior staff.

Trump's UK state visit hits storm: Giant Epstein photo banner at Windsor, London rallies rage over files & policies

Donald Trump’s second state visit in six years starts today at King Charles’s Windsor estate in style: a carriage ride (past Harry and Meghan’s old haunt of Frogmore Cottage, as it happens), a lavish evening banquet and panoply of military bands and fly pasts. It is a massive ceremonial courtesy…

Scotland’s First Minister claimed Labour ministers in London are ‘distracted’ amid the fallout from the peer’s departure.

The government said the new legislation will ‘end the culture of cover-ups’ but have been warned not to water it down

Staff across the royal household have been working behind the scenes to impress the US president