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The Latest Breaking News from Tony Blair

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

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AI may displace 3m jobs but long-term losses ‘relatively modest’, says Tony Blair’s thinktank

Rise in unemployment in low hundreds of thousands as technology creates roles, Tony Blair Institute suggests

The Guardian - UK

‘Smash the gangs’ is just Keir Starmer’s version of ‘stop the boats’. It won’t solve the migrant crisis

The PM echoes Tony Blair in his pledge to be tough on crime – but he is less interested in the causes behind the Channel crossings, says Enver Solomon, chief executive of the Refugee Council

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Angela Rayner says she discussed enhancing UK-US special relationship in call with JD Vance – as it happened

Deputy prime minister says she spoke with vice president-elect about ‘plans for the future and working together’

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - America's vicious election shows the surprising virtue of... apathy

My all-time favourite “line to take” – that is, the set of pre-agreed talking points politicians stick to – came from general election night 2001. Tony Blair’s Labour Party was romping towards a second successive landslide, and the media was searching for a more interesting story. Turns out, it was…

Evening Standard

Voices: ‘The new Thatcher or the new Truss?’ 10 of your burning Tory leadership questions answered

ASK ME ANYTHING: In this exclusive Q&A session, The Independent’s political commentator Andrew Grice addresses key dynamics in the Tory leadership race, and what we can expect when Kemi Badenoch or Robert Jenrick takes the helm

The Independent UK

Rough sleeping in London hits new record high during first months of Labour Government

An 18 per cent year-on-year rise in rough sleeping drags mayor Sadiq Khan further from his target of eliminating street homelessness in London by 2030

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OPINION - Rachel Reeves's £40bn of tax rises sets up the dividing line for the next election

Ask two Blairites when the New Labour project died, and you might get three different answers. The first is June 2007, when Tony Blair stood down as prime minister. The second is May 2008, when the party ran a class-based (and unsuccessful) campaign at the Crewe and Nantwich by-election. While…

Evening Standard

Keir Starmer appoints former Tony Blair aide as new No 10 political director

Keir Starmer has appointed a former aide to Sir Tony Blair and Gordon Brown as his new political director ...

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Starmer appoints Blair and Brown aide as new No 10 political director

Claire Reynolds will be in charge of liaising with MPs across the Parliamentary Labour Party.

The Independent UK

Starmer appoints former Blair and Brown aide as new No 10 political director

Claire Reynolds will be in charge of liaising with MPs across the Parliamentary Labour Party

Evening Standard

Keir Starmer appoints former Blair and Brown aide as his political director

Claire Reynolds, the director of Labour Women’s Network, will take on task of liaison between No 10, party and MPs

The Guardian - UK

Cutting off Unrwa would deeply harm Israel’s reputation, says UK minister

Hamish Falconer says legislation under consideration by Knesset is ‘neither in Israel’s interest nor realistic’

The Guardian - UK

Calls for reparations for Britain's slave trade are rooted in dark legacy

A debate about reparations for Britain’s role in the slave trade overshadowed a summit in Samoa of the Commonwealth, many of whose member nations were once British colonies

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Tony Blair: Why there has to be compromise to end the Ukraine war

Sir Tony Blair discusses peace-making, Brexit and Keir Starmer’s premiership in wide-ranging London Standard interview

The Independent UK

Rachel Reeves to turn on spending taps with Budget boost for infrastructure and clean energy

The chancellor is planning to change the government’s fiscal rules to free up billions of pounds of borrowing, which she will promise to spend laying ‘the foundations of future growth’

Evening Standard

OPINION - Keir Starmer has just wrecked the UK's relationship with Donald Trump

I am starting to wonder if Keir Starmer is naïve or foolish, or both. Presenting himself as a seasoned technocrat, he has shown himself to be embarrassingly callow in the political arts: first, by announcing in isolation, significant cuts to the winter fuel allowance; second, by so woefully handling the…

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Reeves ‘WhatsApps’ Hunt and is in contact ‘regularly’ with Blair and Brown

The Chancellor added that she would love to be able to call up the late Alistair Darling – the last Labour chancellor to deliver a Budget.

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson’s memoir flops as sales slump despite ‘£2m advance’

Booksellers reportedly left with ‘piles and piles’ of the political memoir, ‘Unleashed’

The Guardian - UK

Bring in pay-per-mile road pricing across UK, urges Tony Blair’s thinktank

Rachel Reeves urged to shelve fuel duty plans and overhaul taxes amid expected switch to electric vehicles

The Guardian - UK

A moment that changed me: I first heard Oasis at 14 – and they gave me the swagger to come out

Definitely Maybe spoke to me as a working-class Glasgow teenager and gave me hope. Be Here Now brought it all crashing down

The Independent UK

The NHS desperately needs a shot in the arm – the government’s 10 year plan cannot afford to fail

As the 2024 Budget dawns the government have put out a slew of NHS announcements – but is any of it radical enough to make change?

The Guardian - UK

Lord Leitch obituary

Businessman and Labour politician who chaired the National Employment Panel and produced his key report in 2006

The Guardian - UK

The big idea: is nostalgia killing politics?

From the Tories’ Thatcher fixation to Labour’s Blair fetish, ideas from the past are poisoning the political present

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