Michael Savage observes that Cameron’s denunciation of Brown’s 'weak' premiership recalled Tony Blair’s famous savaging of the ‘weak, weak, weak’ Major government . Here it is: After watching that, I chanced upon an exchange between Blair and Cameron, dated November 2006. Their subject? NHS budget cuts. The first two minutes of the clip reinforce just how co...
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Spectator on 17th Mar 2010 (via spectator.co.uk)
Tony Blair was right about Gordon Brown. Today we have confirmation of the bitterness and disagreements at the top of the Blair government. All that spinning and all those stories turn out to have been well founded. Tony Blair was wrong about the Middle East. He still thinks there are military solutions to Middle Eastern
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JohnRedwood on 1st Sep 2010 (via johnredwoodsdiary.com)
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.
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LiberalConspiracy on 21st Jun 2011 (via liberalconspiracy.org)
Miss Blair? F**k would I....In last week's Question Time, David Milliband claimed that the electorate would "miss Tony Blair as PM" once he resigned. Well, let's just say I don't share such sentiments.Virtually all British PM's in history have been either imperiailist, or increased the size of government. In that sense, they have been grossly un-libertarian. Blair has been NO exception. Tony Blair...
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LibOnTheUK on 14th Jul 2008 (via chrislib.blogspot.com)
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...
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Spectator on 24th May 2009 (via spectator.co.uk)
Mandrake hears whispers that Anthony Seldon the biographer of Tony Blair is being lined up for a peerage by David Cameron with a view to his becoming a minister under Michael Gove the shadow education secretary.
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Telegraph on 22nd Sep 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Michael Sheen says he still doesn't know how he feels about Tony Blair, despite having portrayed him three times on screen.
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Telegraph on 14th Sep 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
A prominent supporter of Tony Blair's health reforms is to advise the Conservatives, saying they are "committed" to the NHS.
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BBCPolitics on 26th Feb 2010 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
Reading Michael Wolff's article in the Spectator today, I was struck by the uncanny resemblance of his subject to another. Here, with only a few substitutions, cuts and emendations, is my version. Blair’s big secret is that he doesn’t have one Wednesday, 26th November 2008 Sackerson reveals how he secured Tony Blair’s co-operation for his biography and discovered that this p...
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Bearwatch on 29th Nov 2008 (via theylaughedatnoah.blogspot.com)
David Cameron has lured a team of Tony Blair's key advisers into the Tory 'big tent' as part of a sudden realignment of power and influence at Westminster, The Observer can reveal. Among those ready to help the Conservatives are Matthew Taylor, head of the Number 10 Policy Unit under Blair, Professor Julian le Grand, a former adviser on NHS policy, Geoff Mulgan, a former director of...
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PJCJournal on 8th Sep 2008 (via thejournal.parker-joseph.co.uk)
Actor Michael Sheen explains how meeting Tony Blair changed his on-screen portrayal of the former prime minister.
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BBCPolitics on 13th Sep 2010 (via news.bbc.co.uk)