Barack Obama is to meet former prime minister Tony Blair in London on Saturday morning, according to the Illinois senator's campaign. Mr Obama will also sit down with Gordon Brown at 10 Downing Street (scheduled to last an hour and followed by a "grip and grin" photo op outside) and David Cameron, opposition Tory leader. At the start of the Brown meeting others including David Miliband, Foreign Se...

Downing Street is dismayed that Barack Obama has agreed to meet Tony Blair ahead of Gordon Brown on his whistle stop tour of Britain.

The Independent on Sunday reports that Tony Blair has been into Downing Street to advise Gordon Brown. One can only imagine what Blair makes of the mess that the man who spent so long before plotting to take his job is now making of it. But judging by what John Burton, Blair’s constituency agent, writes in the Mail on Sunday, Blair can’t be entirely surprised by the situation: “A...

Tony Blair will be reading this in today's New York Times and purring with pleasure. Tony Blair: more American than Barack Obama? The former Prime Minister already has plenty to purr about. We learned earlier this week that he has trousered £12 million in the year or so since he exited 10 Downing Street - much of it from the US lecture circuit where he gets more bucks per word than Bill...

David Cameron has pledged new Whitehall rules to prevent any repeat of the Downing Street dossier which Tony Blair used to justify the war in Iraq.

Gordon Brown distanced himself from the dreadful things which went on in 10 Downing Street in the bad old days of Tony Blair.

Gordon Brown used one of his last official phone calls from Downing Street to apologise to Tony Blair for their poor relationship.

What's that crashing sound? Is it a mobile phone being thrown against a wall in the open plan office in Number 12 Downing Street from which Gordon Brown runs the country? I wouldn't like to have been in the room when somebody showed the PM these fantastic pictures of Tony Blair meeting President Obama today. So nice to meet you, Mr President (Photo: REUTERS) Having comprehensively beaten...

Europeans love Barack Obama. Not least the European political classes. He was in Downing Street (after having a breakfast briefing from Tony Blair) on Saturday morning on the European leg of his World tour. Cameron stole the media march with his 'eavesdropped' private chat with Obama.Barack Obama got a rapturous welcome in London His reviews at home have been mixed (as have his poll results), part...

Tony Blair has once again outflanked his old friend Gordon Brown by becoming the first world statesman to shake hands with President Barack Obama.