[PDF file]: […] it that – uniquely among modern Presidential enactions – there was no photographer present to capture the historic moment. It is fitting that Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair, who gave the UK its own FOI Act, has since attempted to disassociate himself from the law he presented to the Queen for Royal Assent in […]
[PDF file]: […] 2003 after being named by 10 Downing Street for criticising its war-promoting dossier, had been exhumed and his remains cremated? Did you know that Prime Minister Tony Blair and his former flat-mate and Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer, prevented an inquest – that would have had legal investigatory powers – by setting up the non-statutory […]
[PDF file]: […] was ‘the right decision’. According to Bush, ‘America is safer without a homicidal dictator pursuing WMD and supporting terror at the heart of the Middle East.’7 Tony Blair is equally unrepentant, arguing in his autobiography that ‘leaving Saddam in power was a bigger risk to our security than removing him; and that terrible though […]
[PDF file]: Confessions of a Labour loyalist Sailing Close To The Wind: Reminiscences Dennis Skinner and Kevin Maguire London: Quercus, £20.00, h/b In his extremely useful memoir of the Blair government, Adam Boulton notes that the unlikely figure of Dennis Skinner had been ‘recruited into Blair’s big tent’. He goes on to comment on how Skinner […]
[PDF file]: […] to the polls in May 1997. Labour was elected with a comfortable majority. On the day they took office, each of the cabinet ministers in the incoming Blair government had meetings with the senior civil servants in their respective departments. Custom and practice at these inaugural meetings is for civil servants to provide advice […]
[PDF file]: […] the Labour leadership abandoned any thought of challenging the economic status quo and began accommodating the perceived power and electoral popularity of a Thatcherised, privatised Britain.59 Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, who had acquired safe Labour seats in the 1983 general election, were part of this shift. By the end of their first parliament […]
[PDF file]: […] James and John. Bryant is something of an enigma. His history of Christian Socialism, for example, Possible Dreams (1996), culminates in the election of a certain Tony Blair as Labour Party leader, a man whose efforts to rebuild the Labour Party were ‘essentially moral . . . a return to an ethical rather than […]
[…] James and John. Bryant is something of an enigma. His history of Christian Socialism, for example, Possible Dreams (1996), culminates in the election of a certain Tony Blair as Labour Party leader, a man whose efforts to rebuild the Labour Party were ‘essentially moral . . . a return to an ethical rather than […]
[PDF file]: […] of Labour MPs came to see him to try and get it stopped or modified. One of them was the then rising star of the back-benches, Tony Blair. This was 1988. We still don’t know for sure why the Gould report was dumped: none of those principally involved have explained it. My guess would […]
[PDF file]: […] was going to happen no matter what anyone said. Had Kelly called a press conference and told the world everything he knew, he could have embarrassed the Blair government; but that’s all. Second, if Kelly’s death looked like an unlikely and/or incompetent way to commit suicide, it was an even more incompetent way to […]
