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The Latest Breaking News from Tony Blair

Double-digit vote share in local elections ‘could indicate Labour government’

Polling expert Sir John Curtice said Tony Blair and David Cameron both secured local council vote share wins of more than 10% before becoming PM.

The Independent UK

Steady progress in the local elections is not enough. Labour needs a knockout blow

Keir Starmer needs to convert poll leads to council clean sweeps to show his party is on the road back to power

The Guardian - UK

After the fall of Richard Sharp, the next BBC chair must not be another political crony

The public interest requires an open and scrupulous process to find the person best suited to perform an important role in our national life

The Guardian - UK

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I’ll be bolder than Tony Blair on public service reform, pledges Keir Starmer

The party would go “further than Blair on public services, further than the Tories in the private sector,” Sir Keir told said.

The Independent UK

‘I’ll be bolder than Blair on public service reform,’ says Keir Starmer

Leader pledges a radical, reforming Labour government with aid to first-time buyers and a revamp of tuition fees

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Sheena Patel’s cultural highlights

The writer and director on a blockbuster biography of Jean Rhys, Steve McQueen’s Grenfell film and the car crash brilliance of US comedy Search Party

The Guardian - UK

Rupert Murdoch’s talent for ‘the long game’ will see him through his annus horribilis

A costly court settlement, the firing of his kingmaker-in-chief, a messy divorce... and ‘Succession’: the tycoon is enduring a torrid year, writes Nick Hilton. Will it finally erode the power of his empire?

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Northern Ireland man saves the day for Senator George Mitchell after airline loses his luggage

Paul O’Hara's quick action allowed Senator Mitchell to participate in events marking the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement

Belfast Live

Coronation guest list: A who’s-who of everyone invited to King Charles’ big day

Attendees for today’s ceremony include world leaders, foreign dignitaries, and members of the public. Emma Loffhagen charts who has — and hasn’t — made the cut

Evening Standard

Why the Turner prize shortlist is a cultural barometer of our political times

The UK’s biggest prize for contemporary art is back. The 2023 Turner prize shortlist has been announced featuring British artists Jesse Darling, Rory Pilgrim, Ghislaine Leung and Barbara Walker.

The Conversation

Rishi Sunak refuses to apologise for UK slave trade or to pledge reparations

PM says ‘trying to unpick our history is not the right way forward’ in response to Labour’s Bell Ribeiro-Addy

The Guardian - UK

London nightclubs battle for late licenses to keep dancefloors alive

Printwords in Surrey Quays is closing this weekend

Evening Standard

‘Film sets can be a hierarchical, beastly, power-abusing structure’: Bertie Carvel on Hollywood, typecasting and Dalgliesh

As Carvel returns to his role as the poet-detective in the Channel 5 drama, he tells Tom Murray about portraying a grieving man while experiencing loss in his own life

The Independent UK

Angela Rayner: People need political change to give them second chance I had

Speaking exclusively to the Sunday Mail, the Ashton-under-Lyne MP said people are desperately in need of that same sort of political change to improve their lives.

Daily Record

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Glasgow Live

The time when a top UK Government advisor wanted Celtic and Rangers to swap shirts and play in Belfast

The match was proposed by Alastair Campbell and was to be played to drum up support during the final days of the Good Friday Agreement referendum.

Belfast Live

Catering for the Clintons is 'a career highlight' for enterprising Lisburn twins

"It was fabulous for a small family business such as ourselves within Northern Ireland to be recognised in this way."

Belfast Live

Good Friday Agreement Gala Dinner told: Northern Ireland can never go back to its violent past

The gathering came as the Stormont Assembly remains effectively collapsed due to a DUP boycott

Daily Mirror

Tony Blair feared Queen would be killed by acrobat at Millennium Dome New Year's Eve party

A documentary tells how trapeze artists were flying above the then Labour PM, the late monarch and husband Prince Philip on New Year’s Eve 1999

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Daily Mirror

Labour vows to bring back Tony Blair-style NHS targets to bring down waiting times

Keir Starmer accused the Tories of presiding over a "broken" system and said his team would focus on tackling long waits

The Guardian - UK

How UK governments from Major to Johnson tried to tackle obesity

Successive administrations have produced hundreds of policies to solve public health threat since 1990

The Independent UK

Starmer: Labour would bring back Blair-style NHS targets to fix ‘broken’ system

The opposition leader used interviews with two newspapers to set out his vision for ‘reform and rebuilding’ of healthcare.

The Independent UK

Alastair Campbell plays bagpipes lament for late Good Friday Agreement figures

The former Downing Street communications chief played the tune in memory of politicians involved in the peace deal who ‘are no longer with us’.

The Independent UK

Release of paramilitary prisoners in 1998 ‘horrible but necessary’ – Tony Blair

Former taoiseach Bertie Ahern said the Good Friday Agreement would never have been signed without the decision to release prisoners.

The Independent UK

Young people hold responsibility for peace deal’s future, ex-leaders tell pupils

Sir Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern addressed an audience of teenagers at an event in Belfast to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.

Belfast Live

Get on and do the right thing, Tony Blair tells Stormont leaders at Good Friday Agreement conference

The ex-Prime Minister was appearing alongside former US president Bill Clinton at a Belfast conference marking 25 years since the Good Friday Agreement

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