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Tony Blair Articles

The tragedy of Western isolationism

The Labour party has always had a proud internationalist tradition. Yet in recent years we have allowed ourselves to be bullied into thinking that any attempt by the West to intervene in the affairs of another country, regardless of the reasons for intervention, is...

Don’t accept this new, ‘new normal’

Labour’s six-year slide damages not just the party but the country My first day working at Progress, Monday 4 January 2010, saw us catapulted into the general election campaign. Wasting no time in the early new year, David Cameron displayed his will to win by...

I won’t be quitting Labour, and neither should you

There we have it. As most people expected from the moment he was allowed on the ballot, Jeremy Corbyn has been re-elected as leader of the Labour party - securing an even larger percentage of the vote than last year's election. For many Labour members it feels like...

Westminster Diary: A Reluctant Minister Under Tony Blair

I had not known that Bernard Donoughue was a junior minister in the opening period of Tony Blair’s premiership. The affable peer will always be best known for the part he played in the turbulent Wilson and Callaghan years, as the head of the No 10 policy unit – the...
A living wage for all workers

A living wage for all workers

This year, mayor of London Sadiq Khan announced the new London living wage will be £9.75 an hour (increasing to £10 an...