There can only be one winner in the party leadership race and whoever it is must be ruthless and unsentimental, writes John McTernan
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Scotsman on 3rd Sep 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
Blair delighted! “I’ve always been a winner, never doubted it at all, especially after two election victories. As soon as I saw those cards in that little shop in Jerusalem I just knew that a few shekels would bring me good fortune, and the silver part in the middle was, well, you know, familiar territory, so
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CurlysCornerShop on 18th Feb 2009 (via curly15.wordpress.com)
Tony Blair, way back when he was shadow home secretary, realised being tough on law and order - or crime and its causes - was a vote-winner. He was right.
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Telegraph on 8th Jun 2011 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
It's striking how Tony Blair, the most successful election winner in Labour party history, is now so despised in the country that gave him three landslides. This matters politically, because he has - I fear - poisoned the cause of liberal interventionism. I look at this in my News of the World column today. Blair's Chicago speech of 1999 laid out what I regarded as a bold and coherent fo...
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Spectator on 31st Jan 2010 (via spectator.co.uk)
The German and French leaders will play a big role in picking the winner, but have indicated they were unlikely to support Tony Blair, Britain's former premier, for Europe's first full-time president
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FT on 30th Oct 2009 (via traxfer.ft.com)
TONY Blair has been named the winner of the prestigious Liberty Medal for 2010 by the USA's National Constitution Centre.
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Scotsman on 30th Jun 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
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)
It was Peter Preston that once said three D’s spell out the legacy of Prime Ministers when leaving office, ‘decay, defeat and disappointment’. Tony Blair however, a three time general election winner, left on the back of more than a decade at the top, giving a rather dignified speech to the House of Commons and
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BUCF on 6th Sep 2009 (via bucf.wordpress.com)
There is the adage that to be a winner you must look like a winner, I wonder if this extends to talking like a winner or claiming you can win by a landslide? This is something that has been said by Obama's team, if not Barack himself, and is being widely reported across the world's media. But the question is will saying you will win by a landslide guarantee that victory. The contrast cou...
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CampaignsBlog on 30th Sep 2008 (via totalpolitics.com)
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