Gary Gibbon
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.
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What impact will war in Gaza have on UK political parties?
In this episode of The Political Fourcast, Nicky Morgan and Charlie Falconer join Krishnan Guru-Murthy to discuss how the war in Gaza could change the political fortunes of UK parties.
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Tony Blair: ‘I don’t agree with the direction of the Labour Party in these past years’
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, who supports calls for a second referendum on the Brexit deal, said he doesn’t think the Labour Party would vote for the kind of Brexit deal the Tory government will end up with. We ask what he was going to do about those standing in his way: Tory back benchers, public opinion and…
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Blair: UK could stay in a reformed EU
The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has insisted his party would respect last year’s referendum vote to leave the European Union, after Tony Blair said it is still possible Britain could stay in a reformed EU. The former prime minister suggested European leaders had told him they could compromise on the principle of free movement of…
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Blair’s warning on hard Irish border
The former prime minister Tony Blair has said a hard Irish border would be a disaster, with an agreement the best way of limiting damage after Brexit.
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Liberal Democrats rule out coalition
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.
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Jeremy Corbyn speaks out on ‘unhelpful’ Blair
The Labour leader hits back at Mr Blair’s call yesterday for people to rise up against Brexit. He described that intervention, just a week before a crucial by-election in Stoke, as “not helpful.”
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Gary Gibbon
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FactCheck: what do we learn from the Blair-Bush letters?
Letters written by Tony Blair for the eyes of the US president only have now been declassified. What do they tell us about the Iraq War?
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Gary Gibbon
Chilcot Inquiry: stinging criticism as families still grieve
Sir John Chilcot’s statement, just delivered, was starker than the report itself in its criticism of the Iraq War.
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Gary Gibbon
Syria debate: Johnson attacks ‘self-righteous certitude’
Alan Johnson rebuked Corbyn’s team with a sharp speech, but the debate hasn’t had the energy of past Commons debates on war.
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Gary Gibbon
Syria debate: converts unlikely after leaders’ speeches
Neither David Cameron nor Jeremy Corbyn are likely to have won over any converts with their Commons speeches.
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Bloody Sunday: former soldier arrested
A former soldier is arrested on suspicion of murdering three civil rights demonstrators in Londonderry on Bloody Sunday in 1972.
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Gary Gibbon
David Cameron tries to return to his liberal Conservatism mission
Long marchers from the 2005 Cameron leadership bid will hope it’s a return to his original programme of work, but he now faces divisive and headline-hogging battles.
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Jon Snow
The Corbyn factor: shocking the political system through sheer normality
A sense of political intoxication: the enthusiasm, the detail, the debate, and the understanding of the issues was unlike anything I had experienced.
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Michael Crick
When Tony Blair nearly ended Jeremy Corbyn’s career
Had Blair withdrawn the whip from Jeremy Corbyn, it would probably have been the end of his political career. And ended any chance of taking the leadership himself 19 years later.
