[PDF file]: […] – 46% of the votes cast) neither Labour nor Conservatives have polled above 45% of the votes cast in a general election. Thatcher didn’t get above 44%, Blair peaked at 43% and 1 This adversarial mindset even extends to the architecture of the House of Commons: two narrow rows of benches facing each other. […]
[PDF file]: […] a united Europe sound as British as roast beef and brown ale, Major’s deputy Michael Heseltine gave it the aura of an exciting business enterprise and Tony Blair bestowed upon the project the glitter of a chic and fashionable new international club that Britain would be crazy not to join. The first task of […]
[PDF file]: […] at 10. Will the next volume have to combine the premierships of Truss and Sunak? It is worth noticing here that he has certainly not neglected Tony Blair, having published edited volumes, The Blair Effect in 2001 (with a new edition in 2005), Blair’s Britain in 2007, and single authored volumes, Blair Unbound in […]
[PDF file]: […] ‘Robert Henderson, who had Special Branch sicced on him and then was the 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. Leveson did not call him to testify. (No celebrity […]
[…] the Labour and Conservative Friends of Israel, for example, are public.13 On the other hand, their liaison with the Israeli embassy in London is not. *new* ‘ Blair and Brown’ Yes, I sat and watched all five episodes of the BBC programmes about the two Bs. Both men did one big thing. Blair supported […]
[PDF file]: […] those ‘plausible young men’ who rose to the top of that society – Nick Clegg, David Cameron, Ed Miliband, David Miliband and the primus inter plausibiles, Tony Blair. ‘This was very much the modern trend: educated, metropolitan, 1 middle-class young men with a plausible, unstuffy manner and a promise of managerial competence.’ Close to […]
[PDF file]: […] Minister without Portfolio from 1997 until 1998, when he became Trade and Industry Secretary, acquired responsibility for the Millennium Dome. Despite opposition from most of the Cabinet, Blair decided that the project would go ahead. (Carrell 2000) The Millennium Dome was granted £400m of lottery money, and British Sky Broadcasting were among an array […]
[…] ‘Robert Henderson, who had Special Branch sicced on him and then was the 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. Leveson did not call him to testify. (No celebrity […]
[PDF file]: […] the list gave only £20,000. An anomaly of the 2015 list is that 70 donations of £1,000 each were made by one person – a certain ‘Anthony Blair’ – to individual Constituency Labour Parties (CLPs). He also gave £6,000 to the central party.3 Clearly then, every year will have its own peculiarities; but one […]
[PDF file]: […] and troops, citing ‘quality intelligence’ of an imminent attack. With the Iraq invasion looming in the background and widespread disbelief in the WMD fairy-story, many accused Mr Blair of cooking up a false alarm with regard to Heathrow too. But it seems very unlikely that Mr Blair was behind it: the impetus for the […]
