Get In: The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer by Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund

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[PDF file]: […] Pogrund’s book is certainly a corrective to the subtitle of Eagleton’s book: there was no journey to the right; that’s where it started. In this regard Tony Blair comes close to the truth, quoted as saying (p. 184): It’s possible his journey isn’t like Neil Kinnock, where you start on the left and then […]

Apocryphylia

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[PDF file]: […] of the would be lobbyists by mentioning the £14k per month retainer. Cunningham, who organised the 1992 Labour general election campaign and served as a minister under Blair 1997-1999 (before being reshuffled to the back benches) was the subject of an enquiry by the House of Lords’ Committee for Privileges in 2008 about how, […]

Tittle-tattle

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[PDF file]: […] battle, in particular from Paul Vallely. The paper’s readers were not told that Vallely, created a Companion of St Michael and St George (CMG) during the Tony Blair premiership, was ghost writer of the Geldof autobiography Is That It? No critical words about the multimillionaire exBoomtown Rat in Private Eye either: his Ten Alps […]

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[…] the boundary between analysis and advocacy, so be it. The stakes are high, and there is much work yet to do.’ Anthony Frewin 20 Remember this? ‘Tony Blair personally ordered an exemption for motor racing from a tobacco sponsorship ban after Labour received a secret £1m donation from Bernie Ecclestone, the Formula One boss’ […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] pro-European Union wing, as well as in the predominantly proEU media, attempt to contaminate them with nationalism – and thus the right. Here is Prime Minister Tony Blair doing it, in his talk to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp Leadership Conference, in Australia: ‘…the Labour government I hope to lead will be outward-looking, internationalist and […]

South of the border

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[PDF file]: […] contest Rory Stewart has, quite wisely, sat on his hands and let our current PM make a predictable hash of things. I am distinctly reminded of Tony Blair and his position in the Labour Party – at least during the idyllic, pre-war criminal days. Blair was seen as a soft-right (within Labour) and Stewart […]

Not the Chilcot Report by Peter Oborne

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[PDF file]: […] is well written and burns with hot logic. His criticism, from careful examination of the material available to Chilcot, is not only directed at Prime Minister Tony Blair. He concludes: ‘I have found no evidence that David Manning, foreign policy adviser inside Downing Street as war loomed, ever tried to correct Tony Blair. Neither […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] the time of the crash: the market is magic, we need no regulation of the City and the domestic manufacturing economy can be ignored. Messrs Brown and Blair had persuaded themselves in the early 1990s that it was necessary to follow the neo-con (and Conservative Party) line on economic policy to get elected because […]

The View from the Bridge

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[PDF file]: […] for example 11 Not that this makes a change from NuLab. See James Chapman, ‘Meet Labour’s City cronies: The roll call of bankers rewarded by Brown and Blair’, The Daily Mail 12 February 2009. These are detailed in James Lyons, ‘NHS reform leaves Tory backers with links to private healthcare firms set for bonanza’, […]

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