All news on the topic: Tony Blair

The Labour leader must bear his predecessors in mind over the Labour Party's policy on defence, an area has historically been a sticky issue for the Labour Party

Ben Hyde was among six Redcap military policemen killed at a police station near Basra. At the time it was the British forces’ biggest single loss of life since the Falklands

The former Labour Prime Minister spoke to MPs on the Northern Ireland Affairs Select Committee this morning ahead of next month’s 25th anniversary of the historic agreement, which ended most of the violence of the Troubles

The senior Labour MP - now Keir Starmer’s Shadow Foreign Secretary - said it 'wasn't easy' arriving in Parliament 'being young and black and from a working-class background' in 2000

The Greater Manchester Metro Mayor piled pressure on Labour leader Keir Starmer to back the Mirror's calls to extend free school meals to all primary school pupils in England

The two-time Labour leadership hopeful left the door open to a Westminster comeback - but insisted he was 'genuinely excited' about more powers being handed to the North.

Peace in Northern Ireland was welcomed by everybody but the Tories and the DUP, says Fleet Street Fox. They're happy to use their failed Brexit as a way to destroy it

Compared with Tony Blair’s modest proposals, Keir Starmer is offering five major 'missions' to transform Britain and, as Jason Beattie writes, he is thinking big on how to fix a Britain broken by years of incompetent Tory rule

Chris Briggs, senior president of identity at document verification company Mitek, has said digital IDs will soon be a reality, following an intervention by former Prime Minister Tony Blair and former Conservative chief William Hague

According to the Ministry of Justice, only 71,138 community sentences were handed out in 2021 - down from 189,333 in 2010

In a speech today the Shadow Home Secretary said stories of officers like Catherine Cawood are "very real" as she outlined plans to recruit 13,000 neighbourhood officers and PCSOs

Labour veteran Douglas Alexander - who served in both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's Governments - announced he was standing in the Scottish constituency of East Lothian at the next general election

Nadine Dorries has become the latest Conservative Party MP to confirm she will stand down at the next General Election, following in the footsteps of Matt Hancock and Sajid Javid

Labour's Angela Rayner said the Tories' record on workers’ rights is 'one of broken promises and abject failure' as she attacked the government for not delivering on its pledge to tackle zero hours contract

Writing for The Mirror, Andy Burnham calls on the government to give nurses the pay rise they deserve and get the NHS back on track

The shadow Health boss wants to buy excess capacity in the private sector to carry out 233,000 procedures a year to cut NHS waiting lists if Keir Starmer becomes PM

US President Bill Clinton rejected the Queen's invitation to Buckingham Palace in 1997 in favour of exploring London alongside Prime Minister Tony Blair and their respective wives

Labour's leader defended his tough stance on NHS reforms, vowing to take on 'bureaucratic nonsense' and 'mind-boggling inefficiencies' in the health service

A decade of vicious Conservative austerity has halved PCSO levels, with increasing numbers of the public saying they never see officers on patrol.