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...Burn after Reid-ing One of the more enduring Whitehall reorganisations was Tony Blair and John Reid’s reduction in the size of the Home Office in March 2007....
...two different measures for projecting what share of the vote the parties would have received had elections taken place across the entire country, the gains look closer to David Cameron in 2009 than Tony Blair...
...And Stephen, you think he might yet still ruin our Christmas holidays. Stephen BushYeah....
...These are all, in different ways, things that we more strongly associate with Margaret Thatcher or Tony Blair....
...It is exceeded only by the by-elections in Dudley West in 1994 (Tony Blair) and in Wellingborough earlier this year (Keir Starmer)....
...These 10 mayors are the product of two different governments: Tony Blair and David Cameron (though really in practice George Osborne)....
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...Added to that, David Cameron had spent most of his leadership trying to appeal to socially and economically liberal voters, while Tony Blair, the face of the Iraq war, which had helped the Lib Dem party...
...The Conservative party lost because of other reasons: the charisma of Tony Blair, Black Wednesday, the constant infighting and sleaze, you name it....
...Lucy Fisher Stephen. Stephen Bush Yeah....
...(The only exception to that was a period driven by John Major and Tony Blair’s passion for private finance initiatives, an approach that came with some downsides of its own.)...
...stephen.bush@ft.com Letter in response to this column:Tory schools improvement is far from the whole story / From Professor Frank Land and Ian Benson...
...Stephen BushYeah, indeed....
...Tony Blair, who with Bertie Ahern, then taoiseach, choreographed the 1998 accord, called it constructive ambiguity....
...You heard there the FT’s Stephen Bush talking about immigration. And Stephen’s here with me in the studio. Hi, Stephen. Stephen BushHello, Lucy....
...The not particularly subtle subtext of everything Blair did was to say “this man is my heir”. Blair talked to him as a colleague and praised him for his work over the past four years....
...Here’s a sentence that you can safely use if you can’t think of anything profound to say about British politics: Keir Starmer is no Tony Blair....
...Portland now claims to have hired staffers from No 10 from every PM since Tony Blair. Blain will be succeeded by David Pares, currently head of comms at the Treasury....
...today Starmer’s Thatcher comments spark backlash | In a pitch to Tory voters, Keir Starmer lauded Margaret Thatcher as one of three key change-makers in modern British political history, alongside Tony Blair...
...Stephen Parkinson, who recently retired as senior partner at law firm Kingsley Napley, will replace Max Hill KC from November as DPP and head of the Crown Prosecution Service, the government said on Thursday...
...Stephen Flynn, SNP leader at Westminster, mocked both Sunak and Starmer in the Commons last week....
...In the 1990s, Tony Blair was able to become leader not only while doing the same but by signalling his own personal opposition to abortion: now a position that is basically incompatible with leading the...
...Cross-party calls for devolution | Former UK prime ministers including Tony Blair and Gordon Brown are among those calling for an end to decades of “chopping and changing” on regional policy....
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