[…] 1998 to 2001 and also on the board of the National Council for One Parent Families. In 1999 she was made a Labour peer by the Revd. Blair who had been introduced to her by her husband Peter Kellner, the former chairman and now president of YouGov.13 In June 2001 she became Parliamentary UnderSecretary […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] her then ‘progressive’ views on child sexuality, and fed it to The Daily Telegraph.10 TB’s associates Meanwhile Tony Blair’s commercial activities are expanding rapidly. His ‘consultancy’, Tony Blair Associates, now employs 80 people, according to an article by Edward Heathcote-Amory 8 <http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Study-reveals-true-extentof.5230278.jp 9 The Mail spotted that Mandelson was wearing a watch which cost […]
[…] say that the free market moves since 1979 have all been a mistake. Even if Mr Starmer thought it, this would entail criticising Mrs Thatcher’s acolytes, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and he won’t do that. To judge by Chancellor Reeves’ Mansion House speech in November, she isn’t going to entertain any deviant ideas.3 […]
[PDF file]: […] that working for the Occupation changed her. How does she deal with this? The narrative device she employs is to make a joke of it. When Tony Blair visited the country in May 2007, she was invited to meet him at the British Embassy. The Embassy was ‘rocketed….minutes before Blair arrived – he was […]
[PDF file]: […] on economic policy, which in turn was required to demonstrate a break with the perceived failure of Labour’s economic record of the past.’ (emphases added) So: the Blair government had to demonstrate to the City its ‘fitness to govern’ and thus acquired ‘permission’ to do so. Why is this necessary? Because of the ‘perceived […]
[…] on economic policy, which in turn was required to demonstrate a break with the perceived failure of Labour’s economic record of the past.’ (emphases added) So: the Blair government had to demonstrate to the City its ‘fitness to govern’ and thus acquired ‘permission’ to do so. Why is this necessary? Because of the ‘perceived […]
[PDF file]: […] grip of German bankers intent on preaching protestant rectitude to ill-disciplined countries – which amounted to every country apart from itself, and even itself at times. Thatcher, Blair and Brown The policy choices that the UK made and then induced the EU to follow, were promoting globalisation and reducing protectionism through Thatcherism, and then […]
[PDF file]: […] problem for business – in which ‘commissions’ are commonplace – but it has been for politicians, especially members of the Labour Party whose official ethos before messrs. Blair and Brown was something vaguely along the ‘merchants of death’ line. The Labour government of Harold Wilson solved that problem in 1966 by creating an insulation […]
