[…] we could isolate Northern Rock’s problems and partly because, ever since the 1970s, the Labour Party had been losing elections on the question of economic competence. Tony Blair and I had spent twenty years building New Labour on the foundation of market competition, private enterprise, and economic stability as the the path to Adam […]
[PDF file]: […] like – God help us! – Liz Truss). Doubtless this is the real reason for the removal of the whip: divide and conquer. 2 These being Tony Blair , Gordon Brown and David Cameron . 3 It is quite possible that he had/has someone managing his social media. 4 1 eerily quiet.5 It was […]
[PDF file]: […] has occasionally been used by Prime Ministers to put trouble-makers in a position of power that keeps them away from home as much as possible. (Remember the Blair cabinet and Robin Cook?) As the Foreign Secretary of Harold Wilson’s first cabinet, George Brown was famous for regularly being the worse for wear following a […]
[PDF file]: […] change in their relationship to the US and the global market.10 This actuality was disguised, as it had been during the See for example Scott Newton, ‘ Blair and Gladstone’, Lobster 42 (2001/2), or . 7 8 Gallagher and Robinson (see note 4) p. 13. 9 Cain and Hopkins (see note 3) pp. 285-6. […]
[PDF file]: […] the top Tory job, equally ambitious Starmer was mirroring in his bid to replace Corbyn. Eagleton suggests that the leftover coterie of New Labour Remainers – Tony Blair, Alastair Campbell, Lord Mandelson – and their media allies had settled upon Starmer as their rightful heir long before the 2019 general election. Starmer had been […]
[PDF file]: […] dropped by Macmillan (in 1958) in favour of co-operation with the US and the last solely UK-built and maintained nuclear weapons, free fall bombs, were scrapped by Blair in 1998. Britain now borrows its nuclear deterrent from the US, and would have to consult it prior to its use, this arrangement being cheaper than […]
[PDF file]: […] any congressional authorisation and funding’. Alongside the use of torture, the US Special Forces were let off the leash to use ‘assassination as a standard tactic’. The Blair government, and Jack Straw in particular, claim they knew absolutely nothing about any of this and only a complete cynic could possibly think otherwise. From that […]
[PDF file]: […] former senior Defence Intelligence officer (it now has three). Morrison gave an interview to the BBC in 2004 in which he said that when he heard Tony Blair claiming in 2002 that Iraq posed a ‘serious and current’ threat, he ‘could almost hear the collective raspberry going up around Whitehall.’ 19 That comment got […]
[PDF file]: […] and is properly shocked by its verdict and the subsequent failure of his appeals against it. Along the way Swire observes the servile performances of Thatcher, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Jack Straw and David Miliband – none willing to challenge the determination of Washington to pin the blame for Lockerbie on Libya. […]
[PDF file]: […] Thinking His initial submission can be found at . 11 7 fi subject of a press smear campaign for the sin of writing letters to Tony Blair (see Lobster 39) submitted evidence to the Leveson inquiry about the way the media had treated him.11 Leveson did not call him to testify. (No celebrity […]
