Tony Blair's account of the personal spark with Gordon Brown that conceived New Labour helps to explain the complexity of the relationship and the torrent of vitriol that was unleashed when the passion cooled
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FT on 2nd Sep 2010 (via ft.com)
The tensions between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown permeate almost every chapter of his memoir, which gives the most detailed account of the dysfunctional relationship between the two men. Gordon Rayner and Robert Winnett summarise the political and personal attacks on his colleague
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Telegraph on 2nd Sep 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
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
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Scotsman on 28th Oct 2009 (via news.scotsman.com)
Bring your cooks and your personal trainers, your butlers and your heiresses. Because new Labour is the natural party of ambition Tony Blair As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted we must be new, newer, newest Labour. The government is Tony Blair, Tony Blair is the government. Brave, courageous, bold, fresh, change, prominent, reform, daring, progressive, market, fearless, distinct, Bl...
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NewStatesman on 18th Sep 2008 (via newstatesman.com)
Not content with being a 'socialist', the mastermind behind New Labour, an 'American Messiah' and Middle East 'peace envoy', today we learn Tony Blair is a personal adviser to the oil industry. In particular a company that did extremely well out of the toppling of Saddam Hussein and a £1m deal with the Royal Family of a neighbouring state. Tony Blair waged an ex...
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TheCynicalDragon on 19th Mar 2010 (via cynicaldragon.com)
Computer hackers appear to have hacked into the personal details of Tony Blair after a document containing the former prime minister's national insurance number was published online.
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Telegraph on 25th Jun 2011 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
The US kept a secret personal detail file on Tony Blair, breaking a US-UK agreement to not spy on each other's leaders, a former US communications operator said yesterday.
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PoliticsCoUk on 25th Nov 2008 (via politics.co.uk)
Peter Mandelson has been getting very cross, and rather personal, about George Osborne’s ‘political cross dressing”. But during the Blair era, it was New Labour politicians who were keen on cross dressing. Indeed, on his farewell tour Tony Blair went out of his way to declare it as something that was here to stay: "Most confusingly for modern politicians, many of the policy ...
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Spectator on 12th Aug 2009 (via spectator.co.uk)
Nick Clegg has styled himself as the unifying successor to Tony Blair, launching a "personal guarantee" to voters as he raided Labour's inner-city heartlands.
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Telegraph on 4th May 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Asked how incandescent the Prime Minister was that Tony Blair had met the new President, the PMS replied that Tony Blair was the Quartet Envoy and it was important for the Quartet and important for UK interests that he had a close relationship with the US administration. original source.
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DowningStreetSays on 6th Feb 2009 (via downingstreetsays.com)
Tony Blair has been criticised for asking interns to work unpaid at one of his charities - even though he has a personal fortune estimated at £25m and introduced the mimimum wage while Prime Minister.
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Telegraph on 12th Jul 2011 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)