Irish gambling firm Paddy Power has tipped Tony Blair to become the first EU president. The odds are as follows: Tony Blair 4/6 Jan Peter Balkenende 4/1 Jean-Claude Juncker 11/2 Anders Fogh Rasmussen 6/1 Jacques Chirac 33/1 Bertie Ahern 50/1 Silvio Berlusconi 100/1 No odds have been set on Vaclav Klaus ratifying the Lisbon Treaty.

When Tony Blair dined in a New York restaurant, men were seen tasting food before it was served.

Tony Blair built his success on neutralising ideological debate. The New Labour project, which is now in collapse, had two aspects and one purpose: to steal the Conservatives’ clothes, to strip Labour of its ideological commitments, and to do it all in the pursuit of power. As Blair put it himself: “I have taken from my

THE depth of the hatred that grew between the two central figures in Labour's 13 years in power has been exposed with the publication of Tony Blair's memoirs, in which

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...

Tony Blair is back in the news with the whole debate over the Iraq inquiry so I was intrigued to watch this interview of Blair by Graydon Carter, the notoriously anti-war, anti-Bush editor of Vanity Fair. It took place on Tuesday and what is striking about it is just how much more comfortable in his own skin than Brown, Blair is. Historians will puzzle over why the Labour party was so ke...

Tony Blair attacked Gordon Brown's premiership yesterday and warned that the Labour Party "needs to address" what went wrong during his successor's time in Downing Street.

Tony Blair says that people often told him that power was a sort of aphrodisiac and makes a series of frank disclosures about his relationship with alcohol.

Come back Blair, all is forgiven. That is the message in a new ComRes poll for The Independent. Tony Blair, it seems, is the only senior Labour figure who could transform the party's electoral prospects. With Gordon...

Did Tony Blair write the extraordinary leaked memo he is being credited with penning? Blair is TB in the text, leading some to conclude he is so grand that he now refers to himself in the third personTony Blair's brain could analyse a problem quickly I'm not entirely convinced, and it reads as though it could easily have been written by someone in his office or one of his old inner circle trying t...