The Latest Breaking News from Tony Blair

Former Prime Minister named alongside high-profile Trump administration officials as a founding member of board to lead long-term peace efforts in the Middle East

British electoral politics in the 1980s were dominated by Margaret Thatcher, the prime minister for the whole of that decade. Similarly, Tony Blair dominated elections when he was in Downing Street from 1997 to 2007. In sharp contrast, the decade from 2015 to 2025 saw no fewer than six prime…

IN FOCUS: The Trump administration is pushing on with its plan for peace in Gaza, even as key questions remain, writes James C. Reynolds

As I write my last regular column for the Guardian, my thoughts turn to the lessons and hope we can take from history, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

Former Prime Minister Sir Tony Blair was previously considered for the board, but was denied full membership following objections from Middle Eastern state leaders

Former Labour home secretary David Blunkett says scheme was doomed to ‘run into the sand’ because PM ‘failed to make the case’ for it

The British government has scaled back plans for mandatory digital ID cards, initially proposed as a way of helping control immigration

NEWS ANALYSIS: By watering down his plans to make digital ID compulsory in yet another policy U-turn, the prime minister is showing that he’s lost control of his government’s agenda, writes political editor David Maddox

Prime minister is yet to receive a formal invitation, but the Guardian has been told that Starmer is expected to accept

It is unlikely that within the first few days of a great global event – one moreover triggered by its closest ally launching a coup and kidnapping a head of state – a British government has said so little. It took 16 hours for it to say anything at all,…

Declassified records show the Foreign Office advised Tony Blair’s government on options for dealing with the former Zimbabwean president