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• Tony Blair sets up institute to fight populism - The Straits Times

  02-12-2016 22:02 via straitstimes.com
  
  Tony Blair sets up institute to fight populism
  The Straits Times
  LONDON • Former British prime minister Tony Blair is launching a policy institute to provide "thought leadership" to politicians who are seeking to combat the rise of populism on the right and left in the aftermath of the Brexit vote. "This is not ...and more »
  
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• Tony Blair's Government wanted an amnesty only for terrorists, with soldiers and police excluded, files reveal - Belfast Telegraph

  15-04-2024 07:55 via news.google.com
  Tony Blair's Government wanted an amnesty only for terrorists, with soldiers and police excluded, files reveal  Belfast Telegraph
  
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• Sunak may be petulant, but he’s not the first to suffer the impatience of office

  13-04-2024 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Stories have emerged of a foul mood in Downing Street; it was ever thus behind the scenes in a dying administrationIf Rishi Sunak was able to set aside four hours to see the 84-year-old Sir Ian McKellen playing Falstaff in London’s West End, he would have a powerful reminder not just of the longevity of some careers but also how uneasily some wear the crown.By many accounts, Sunak is struggling with the prospect that his brief stint wearing the Conservative crown will come to a shuddering
  
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• Reports of Sunak’s foul mood in No 10 echo the final days of other dying administrations

  13-04-2024 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Stories have emerged of a foul mood in Downing Street; it was ever thus behind the scenes in a dying administrationIf Rishi Sunak was able to set aside four hours to see the 84-year-old Sir Ian McKellen playing Falstaff in London’s West End, he would have a powerful reminder not just of the longevity of some careers but also how uneasily some wear the crown.By many accounts, Sunak is struggling with the prospect that his brief stint wearing the Conservative crown will come to a shuddering
  
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• Tony Blair's tribute to Lord Richard Rosser - Tony Blair Institute for Global Change

  11-04-2024 16:18 via news.google.com
  
  Tony Blair's tribute to Lord Richard Rosser  Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
  
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• Tony Blair's Son Uses AI to Find Perfect Job Candidates - Techopedia

  09-04-2024 16:58 via news.google.com
  
  Tony Blair's Son Uses AI to Find Perfect Job Candidates  Techopedia
  
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• Tony Blair worked behind scenes to thwart Pat Finucane public inquiry after discussion with MI5 boss - Belfast Telegraph

  09-04-2024 07:50 via news.google.com
  Tony Blair worked behind scenes to thwart Pat Finucane public inquiry after discussion with MI5 boss  Belfast Telegraph
  
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• Tony Blair's son is using AI to match employers with their dream hire - Fortune

  09-04-2024 02:00 via news.google.com
  
  Tony Blair's son is using AI to match employers with their dream hire  Fortune
  
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• UK should stop arms sales to Israel, Tony Blair's ex-foreign secretary says - MSN

  03-04-2024 17:53 via news.google.com
  
  UK should stop arms sales to Israel, Tony Blair's ex-foreign secretary says  MSN
  
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• UK should stop arms sales to Israel, Tony Blair's ex-foreign secretary says - inews

  03-04-2024 17:25 via news.google.com
  
  UK should stop arms sales to Israel, Tony Blair's ex-foreign secretary says  inews
  
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• Tony Blair wants to help Azerbaijan run its climate talks - POLITICO Europe

  01-04-2024 22:00 via news.google.com
  
  Tony Blair wants to help Azerbaijan run its climate talks  POLITICO Europe
  
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• Scottish Labour predicts a general election victory like that of Tony Blair in 1997 - The Scotsman

  27-03-2024 17:24 via news.google.com
  
  Scottish Labour predicts a general election victory like that of Tony Blair in 1997  The Scotsman
  
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• When Alan Partridge interviewed Tony Blair : Punching Up 2024 - Chortle

  27-03-2024 13:38 via news.google.com
  
  When Alan Partridge interviewed Tony Blair : Punching Up 2024  Chortle
  
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• Minimum wage is UK’s ‘most successful economic policy in a generation’

  27-03-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Resolution Foundation study suggests lowest earners are £6,000 a year better off due to policyThe minimum wage has driven up the pay of millions of Britain’s lowest earners by £6,000 a year, making it the single most successful economic policy in a generation, according to a leading thinktank.Since its introduction in 1999 by Tony Blair’s first Labour administration the policy has secured cross-party agreement, and should be seen as the basis for further improvements in t
  
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• Just 22% of Brits think Tony Blair was good for Labour - Yahoo News UK

  26-03-2024 15:20 via news.google.com
  
  Just 22% of Brits think Tony Blair was good for Labour  Yahoo News UK
  
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• Sir Keir Starmer reveals he chats to Sir Tony Blair a lot about life after winning an election - The Telegraph

  21-03-2024 23:21 via news.google.com
  
  Sir Keir Starmer reveals he chats to Sir Tony Blair a lot about life after winning an election  The Telegraph
  
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• The Guardian view on Labour’s economic plans: a response too small for the challenge the UK faces | Editorial

  20-03-2024 19:51 via theguardian.com
  
  A radical agenda is needed to deal with the crises of economic stagnation, political polarisation and the climate emergency. Rachel Reeves did not offer oneOn Tuesday night, Rachel Reeves gave an important speech in the City of London, in which she offered an insight into Labour’s economic thinking. In her Mais lecture, the shadow chancellor cast Britain in a “moment of flux”, comparable to the end of the 1970s when one economic paradigm replaced another. It was, in many respec
  
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• The unaccountable academy model is failing our schools and students | Letters

  20-03-2024 19:40 via theguardian.com
  
  John Marriott would like to see all state schools returned to local authority control, answerable to their communities. Plus letters from Max Hunt, Timothy McQuay and Colin RichardsWhen the school where I taught for 23 years went “grant-maintained” in the early 1990s, I had an uneasy feeling that it was putting children in charge of the tuck shop (Editorial, 14 March). The Blair government’s conversion of grant-maintained schools into foundation schools, largely independent of
  
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• When fame and medical privacy clash: Kate and other crises of confidentiality

  20-03-2024 17:55 via theguardian.com
  
  The Princess of Wales is the latest person in the public eye to find there are questions about the security of their health historyMedical records are meant to be sacred, the preserve of the dedicated professionals treating a patient, but the Princess of Wales is not the first to find herself at the centre of allegations that they have been plundered for gossip.The former prime minister Gordon Brown told the Leveson inquiry into media conduct that he believed a story in the Sun about his son Fra
  
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• Keir Starmer will not pull off what Tony Blair did in 1997 - inews

  18-03-2024 07:00 via news.google.com
  
  Keir Starmer will not pull off what Tony Blair did in 1997  inews
  
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• Labour landslide will be much harder to achieve than in 1997, analysis shows

  18-03-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Starmer’s shadow cabinet less popular before election than Blair’sand Britons have lost confidence in politicians and their prospectsBritish voters will go into the election this year poorer, more pessimistic and less approving of politicians than they did in 1997, according to data showing how difficult it will be for Keir Starmer to replicate Tony Blair’s landslide victory.An analysis of economic and polling data by the political consultancy Public First shows the country has
  
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• Lord McAvoy obituary

  17-03-2024 18:44 via theguardian.com
  
  Trade unionist and stalwart Scottish Labour politician who served as a whip in the Commons and LordsTommy McAvoy, Lord McAvoy, who has died aged 80, was a working-class Labour politician with a strong Catholic faith who probably had more personal encounters with Queen Elizabeth II than any other parliamentarian during the course of Tony Blair’s governments.His contacts with the Queen were due to his role as comptroller of the household, the third highest rank in the government whips’
  
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• Why it's Tony Blair's fault if you can't buy a house - The Telegraph

  17-03-2024 14:00 via news.google.com
  
  Why it's Tony Blair's fault if you can't buy a house  The Telegraph
  
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• How Tony Blair tied up an electoral landslide - The Times

  12-03-2024 22:25 via news.google.com
  
  How Tony Blair tied up an electoral landslide  The Times
  
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• Lord McAvoy obituary: Tony Blair's bruising government whip - The Times

  11-03-2024 01:01 via news.google.com
  
  Lord McAvoy obituary: Tony Blair's bruising government whip  The Times
  
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• Sanna Marin, the Tony Blair Institute, and the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine are focusing on cooperation in attracting ... - Odessa Journal

  07-03-2024 17:34 via news.google.com
  Sanna Marin, the Tony Blair Institute, and the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine are focusing on cooperation in attracting ...  Odessa Journal
  
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• Streeting: We can call on Sir Tony Blair's advice at any time - Yahoo News UK

  05-03-2024 10:51 via news.google.com
  
  Streeting: We can call on Sir Tony Blair's advice at any time  Yahoo News UK
  
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• Tony Blair bolsters his empire (again) - The Spectator

  28-02-2024 11:38 via news.google.com
  
  Tony Blair bolsters his empire (again)  The Spectator
  
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• Sir Patrick Vallance joins Tony Blair Institute - UnHerd

  27-02-2024 12:09 via news.google.com
  
  Sir Patrick Vallance joins Tony Blair Institute  UnHerd
  
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• Tony Blair leads tributes on death of financier Rothschild at age 87 - Irish Examiner

  26-02-2024 22:28 via news.google.com
  
  Tony Blair leads tributes on death of financier Rothschild at age 87  Irish Examiner
  
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