Downing Street has been forced to admit that it is backing Tony Blair to be President of the EU.

Tony Blair has become the most expensive public speaker in the world with his earnings since leaving Downing Street thought to have topped £12 million.

No one and nothing has been allowed to stand in the way of the relentless advancement of Tony and Cherie Blair since they left Downing Street two years ago.

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.

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...

Tony Blair's conversion to Catholicism after he left Downing Street was driven by his wife Cherie he said during a visit to Italy.

Andrew Sparrow: Matthew Taylor used to work for Tony Blair in Downing Street as his chief strategy adviser. Now he's made an interesting confession ...

A newly disclosed Downing Street memo has revealed how Tony Blair helped Rupert Murdoch overcome an official investigation which was jeopardising one of his big investments. It shows that Blair, while prime minister, immediately ordered his top officials to help the tycoon who was frustrated that a potentially lucrative scheme was being blocked by a long-running European commission investigation. ...

Tony and Cherie Blair are renowned - some may say notorious - for enjoying the largesse of wealthy friends. But even by their own standards, their closeness to one of Hollywood's best connected couples may take some beating.

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.