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  • 2 May 2017

    Theresa May vs Brussels: what’s the game?

    Theresa May is clearly relishing the headlines spawned by Brussels leaks. She has stoked them by digging up Ken Clarke’s overheard description of her as a “bloody difficult woman.”

  • 2 May 2017

    Former Cabinet minister Michael Gove and Tony Blair’s former director of communications, Alastair Campbell.

  • 23 Apr 2017

    Remember coalition politics? Today the Lib Dem leader Tim Farron categorically ruled out any deals with any party. And with Brexit looming large, former PM Tony Blair appeared to urge Labour voters to vote tactically if their Labour candidate supported Leave.

  • 21 Mar 2017

    Raymond McCartney, a Sinn Fein politician and former hunger striker, Julie Hambleton, whose sister Maxine was killed in the 1974 Birmingham bombings, and Alastair Campbell, who was at Tony Blair’s side for the first six of the 10 years that it took to bring about the Good Friday agreement.

  • 17 Feb 2017

    Labour MP Heidi Alexander, she resigned from Corbyn’s Shadow Cabinet because of doubts about his leadership in the wake of the EU referendum, and the former Work and Pensions Secretary and Brexit campaigner Iain Duncan Smith discuss Tony Blair’s speech and what it means for current Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

  • 26 Jan 2017

    Theresa May: era of ‘foreign intervention’ is over

    Theresa May tonight ripped up the Tony Blair/David Cameron approach to foreign intervention in a speech to Republican senators and congress members in Philadelphia.

  • 26 Jan 2017

    Mrs May goes to Washington

    The prize of being first through the door has been grabbed in full knowledge that the rest of the world is waiting and measuring before even trying to march to President Trump’s side. Some countries, indeed, think the UK is acting with indecent and rather desperate haste to cosy up to the new US President.

  • 9 Jan 2017

    Alastair Campbell and Isabel Hardman debate Theresa May’s announcement on mental health and the “shared society”.

  • 30 Nov 2016

    Cabinet Secretary on Joint Chiefs

    Talk to anyone around Whitehall and you hear talk of the unique power of the Joint Chiefs of Staff working under Theresa May: Fiona Hill and Nick Timothy.

  • 27 Sep 2016

    Labour: The right fights back

    After heavy pounding from the Corbyn camp in the leadership election result, his opponents in the party returned fire today.

  • 26 Sep 2016

    Labour’s new balance of power gives hope to anti-Corbyn MPs

    Jeremy Corbyn may have cemented his position as Labour leader but the arguments continue over who holds sway in the party’s ruling committee.

  • 23 Sep 2016

    Doomed Smith challenge a dream for Team Corbyn

    Owen Smith’s tilt at the Labour leadership gave Jeremy Corbyn a welcome “shot in the arm”, says his team.

  • 12 Sep 2016

    Cameron quits as MP

    Mr Cameron has talked to friends about the need to avoid the bad publicity Mr Blair has had from jetting around the world and picking up massive cheques from various individuals and regimes.

  • 14 Jul 2016

    Labour leadership must stand up to intimidation and abuse

    When I interviewed Johanna Baxter, a member of Labour’s ruling National Executive Committee, last night, it was clear to me how upset she was about the abuse and intimidation she says she’s received. She’s normally a confident, self-possessed person, but last night she was trembling and holding back tears.

  • 12 Jul 2016

    David Cameron’s last Cabinet – ‘no emoting’

    Theresa May congratulated David Cameron for his achievements in office at his last Cabinet meeting. She will be a very different type of leader.

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