Barack Obama is to meet former prime minister Tony Blair in London on Saturday morning, according to the Illinois senator's campaign. Mr Obama will also sit down with Gordon Brown at 10 Downing Street (scheduled to last an hour and followed by a "grip and grin" photo op outside) and David Cameron, opposition Tory leader. At the start of the Brown meeting others including David Miliband, Foreign Se...
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TobyHarnden on 21st Jul 2008 (via blogs.telegraph.co.uk)
Conservative party sources tell me that David Cameron, Tory leader, is to meet Barack Obama in London on Saturday July 26th. They said that Senator Obama is expected to arrive in London from Paris the previous evening and stay in a hotel. Obama is also due to meet Prime Minister Gordon Brown at 10 Downing Street. Details of an additional event in London have not yet been finalised.
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TobyHarnden on 17th Jul 2008 (via blogs.telegraph.co.uk)
US presidential hopeful holding talks with Gordon Brown and David Cameron, after meeting Tony Blair
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Guardian on 26th Jul 2008 (via guardian.co.uk)
Downing Street is dismayed that Barack Obama has agreed to meet Tony Blair ahead of Gordon Brown on his whistle stop tour of Britain.
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Telegraph on 23rd Jul 2008 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Tony Blair will be reading this in today's New York Times and purring with pleasure. Tony Blair: more American than Barack Obama? The former Prime Minister already has plenty to purr about. We learned earlier this week that he has trousered £12 million in the year or so since he exited 10 Downing Street - much of it from the US lecture circuit where he gets more bucks per word than Bill...
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DavidHughes on 30th Oct 2008 (via blogs.telegraph.co.uk)
David Cameron has pledged new Whitehall rules to prevent any repeat of the Downing Street dossier which Tony Blair used to justify the war in Iraq.
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Telegraph on 15th Jan 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
The Independent on Sunday reports that Tony Blair has been into Downing Street to advise Gordon Brown. One can only imagine what Blair makes of the mess that the man who spent so long before plotting to take his job is now making of it. But judging by what John Burton, Blair’s constituency agent, writes in the Mail on Sunday, Blair can’t be entirely surprised by the situation: “A...
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Spectator on 24th May 2009 (via spectator.co.uk)
Downing Street rejected reports that Gordon Brown had given up on Tony Blair's attempt to become the European Union's president, and had instead switched his attention to sending David Miliband, foreign secretary, to Brussels
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FT on 1st Nov 2009 (via traxfer.ft.com)
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)
Barack Obama has arranged to meet Tony Blair, as well as Gordon Brown and David Cameron, on his visit to London this weekend, with some Labour activists claiming his visit represents a challenge for Labour to rethink its entire political message and style.
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LiberalConspiracy on 23rd Jul 2008 (via liberalconspiracy.org)
Barack Obama arrived at Downing Street today for in-depth talks with Prime Minister David Cameron on issues ranging from military campaigns in Libya and Afghanistan to global economic reform.
