The Independent's Steve Richards has highlighted the existence of an 'informal alliance' between David Cameron and Tony Blair. Richards suggests this ‘alliance’ is based on a policy agenda embraced by many of those who worked closest with Blair in government as well as some of Cameron’ s most trusted Cabinet colleagues.

David Cameron can be seen as the heir to Tony Blair because he wants to do “exactly” the same as the former Labour PM in key policy areas, a shadow cabinet member said yesterday.

David Cameron, who takes great pride in his first class degree from Oxford, is about to meet his match in the form of Sir Gus O'Donnell, the cabinet secretary. A sharp operator who has won the confidence of John Major, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown during his career, O'Donnell will meet Cameron in the new year to kick-start a lengthy process in which the Tories will brief the Whitehall mac...

David Cameron was allowed to put his 'vanity photographer' on the Government payroll despite Tony Blair being stopped from making an identical appointment, it has been claimed.

ONE of David Cameron's proudest boasts is that he has abolished Tony Blair's style of "sofa government". Instead, Cameron claims to have reinstated Cabinet gov

CONSERVATIVE leader David Cameron has unleashed a personal attack on Tony Blair, as Labour politicians step up their lobbying for the former prime minister to become the Eur

This morning I did the Sky News paper review alongside the lovely Nancy Dell'Olio. We got chatting and she was saying how much she admired Tony Blair. The conversation moved on and I jokingly suggested she should support David Cameron after he said he was the 'heir to Blair'. To my utter astonishment she said she did indeed support David Cameron and would vote for him if she could*....

There are two things I remember about the 1996 Labour Party conference. One was that the Shadow Minister for Women, Janet Anderson, claimed - attracting much derision - that: "Under Labour, women will become more promiscuous. That's an election pledge." David Cameron delivered a good speech except for one thing... The second was that Tony Blair gave a strong and - to many ears ...

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...

The PM knows what he wants to achieve in office, and he has the experience to do it, says Bruce Anderson