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...That was auspicious but misleading: they voted massively for Tony Blair’s “new” Labour....
...“Thirty years ago this year, Labour shadow home secretary Tony Blair said our party would be ‘tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime’. It was right then, it’s right now,” Cooper added....
...“He’s a John Prescott-type figure,” one former minister remarked, referring to Tony Blair’s deputy prime minister between 1997 and 2007, who was known for his plain-speaking and gruff manner....
...The Department of Trade and Industry was renamed by Tony Blair as the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform in 2007....
...The chancellor also said that Sir Michael Barber, who previously served as head of the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit under Labour leader Tony Blair, would review the government’s skills reform programme...
...Some big pieces of legislation have been put on hold, including justice secretary Dominic Raab’s “bill of rights”, which would repeal and replace Tony Blair’s 1998 Human Rights Act....
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...Sunak is younger than Tony Blair and David Cameron when they became prime minister. His Indian grandparents emigrated to Britain from east Africa and he grew up in Southampton....
...Harvey Redgrave, senior policy adviser at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, pointed out that the success of a 2002 deal on curbing cross-Channel migration hinged partly on both countries agreeing...
...A YouGov poll this week gave Labour a 33-point lead over the Conservatives — a margin not seen since Tony Blair’s heyday — while other polls have confirmed the Tories are in meltdown....
...Former prime minister Sir Tony Blair said: “We have lost not just our monarch but the matriarch of our nation, the figure who more than any other brought our country together, kept us in touch with our better...
...Labour was founded as the party for the trade unions but its current leader Sir Keir Starmer — like his predecessor Tony Blair before him — is trying to seek an accommodation with the business world....
...HMRC figures show that in 1990 only 1.7mn people paid the 40 per cent higher rate, rising to 2.1mn when Tony Blair’s Labour government came into office in 1997....
...Lidington notes that at least Johnson is not facing a highly popular, charismatic Labour opponent, as Major was with Tony Blair in 1997....
...Davey said Starmer resembled the “Brown/Blairs of this world”, referring to Labour’s last two prime ministers — Gordon Brown and Sir Tony Blair....
...Starmer insists he is not “following a Blair playbook” but the evidence would suggest otherwise....
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...Not since the days of Paddy Ashdown's ultimately unproductive courtship of Tony Blair in the 1990s have relations between the two opposition parties looked so promising....
...Delegates, some of whom have booed Blair’s name in the past, rose to their feet and cheered as Starmer listed the achievements of the Blair/Brown governments of 1997-2010....
...Other people say ‘it’ll take wild horses to drag him out, like Thatcher or Blair’, but I really don’t think he has their staying power.” Additional reporting by Jim Pickard in London...
...But his poll ratings are far behind Blair’s at the same point in his leadership. “This is Blair without the sense of inevitable victory”, said Andrew Murray, a senior adviser to Corbyn as leader....
...Curtis said that in the 1990s, Labour leader Tony Blair had established leads over Major on the economy and who would make the best prime minister....
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