TONY Blair claimed he ordered former foreign secretary Robin Cook to choose between his wife and his mistress after news of his affair broke in 1997.
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Scotsman on 2nd Sep 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
William Hague has revealed a conversation he had with Tony Blair recently. The shadow foreign secretary met Blair to talk about the Middle East. Hague takes up the story: "He said, ‘How are you getting on?' I said ‘We're getting on a lot better since you cleared out!'" He added: "He did not dissent from this view."
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AndrewPorter on 14th Jul 2008 (via blogs.telegraph.co.uk)
FOREIGN Secretary David Miliband has gone on the campaign trail for Tony Blair, "selling" the former prime minister's European credentials to fellow EU foreign min
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Scotsman on 27th Oct 2009 (via news.scotsman.com)
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)
Way back in 1997, the controversial decision to exempt Formula One from a ban on tobacco advertising was passed of by Tony Blair as being nothing to do with him, nothing to do with a £1million loan to Labour from F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone, and nothing to do with Ecclestone's meeting with Blair just hours before the decision was made. Now, it is reported that the truth is very differe...
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NorfolkBlogger on 12th Oct 2008 (via norfolkblogger.blogspot.com)
FOREIGN Secretary David Miliband has gone on the campaign trail for Tony Blair, "selling" the former prime minister's European credentials to fellow EU foreign min
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Scotsman on 27th Oct 2009 (via news.scotsman.com)
Further intelligence reaches me about the stinging criticism of Gordon Brown by Tony Blair which was revealed in a scoop by the Mail on Sunday this month. In what the paper called a "secret memo," Blair accused...
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AndrewGrice on 28th Aug 2008 (via blogs.independent.co.uk)
Tony Blair wanted Gordon Brown to be challenged for the leadership of the Labour party, according to the former home secretary Charles Clarke, who has said that the former prime minister was lining him up to become a "credible opponent". In an interview with the New Statesman, Clarke reveals that Blair told him in 2006 that he "had a great plan" to make him foreign secretary to build him into a se...
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Guardian on 4th Feb 2009 (via guardian.co.uk)
As Tony Blair's chances of becoming European president fade the Foreign Secretary is hitting all the right notes says Matthew d'Ancona.
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Telegraph on 31st Oct 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Ben Brogan picks up on an interview with Charles Clarke in tomorrow's New Statesman in which the former Home Secretary claims Tony Blair wanted him to be Labour leader. Here' s the key passage from the interview: "[Blair] had a great plan, apparently, that he wanted me to be foreign secretary because he thought that if I had been foreign secretary and ...
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Spectator on 4th Feb 2009 (via spectator.co.uk)