Tony Blair has held discussions with Tesco over a £1 million deal to help the company open branches in the Middle East it has been reported.

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

Tony Blair has been in talks with Tesco about helping them expand into the Middle East market it emerged last night.

The BBC's Jon Sopel joins Tony Blair on a visit to the Middle East, in his capacity as envoy for "the Quartet".

Middle East Quartet group will not deal with Islamist movement, but 'back-channel' contacts are open, according to envoy Hamas cannot be part of any Middle East peace talks until it renounces violence, Tony Blair said today. But he suggested that Barack Obama is about to intensify efforts to relaunch the stalled peace process. Blair, marking nearly two years since being appointed Middle ...

Tony Blair today said he thought a ceasefire could be agreed between Israel and Hamas provided a deal could be struck to cut off the supply of arms into Gaza. In an interview on Radio 4's Today programme, Blair said that on the basis of conversations he had had in his role as the Middle East special envoy for the Quartet - the UN, the US, the EU and Russia - he believed that it could be possi...

This is a bit more serious than ‘Where’s Wally?’, even though Mr Blair may be one. When George Bush bestowed the title of ‘Middle East Peace Envoy’ upon the Rt Hon Tony Blair, it was with a great expectation. Maybe such lofty aspiration was unfair, but he was placed a little below an ambassador yet somewhat above a chargé d’affaires, and ought therefore t...

Middle East envoy Tony Blair calls on Barack Obama to tackle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as soon as he assumes office.

The Palestinian Authority has denied it plans to make a formal request to remove Tony Blair from his position as a Middle East envoy.

Incidentally, for those of you who wondered what Tony Blair, the Hope of Peace in the Middle East is doing at the moment, go here. And here he is inteviewed in Haaretz on Christmas Day: Blair supported the truce with...