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Gujaratis in the UK are pushing for a direct flight from London to Ahmedabad. This was confirmed by Darren Murphy, former media advisor to the British prime minister, Tony Blair, who spoke at a meet organised by the Gujarat Media Club in Ahmedabad. You... Full Article at DNA India
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STEPHEN GLOVER: A duplicitous warmonger in thrall to the rich... so why DO the Tories want to be the heirs to Blair?
Daily Mail - UK
That has left a legacy of mistrust among many people. After the deceptions over Iraq, slickness and suavity are no longer held in high regard, and are probably widely distrusted. Without doubt Tony Blair ruthlessly re-fashioned his party to make it... Full Article at Daily Mail - UK
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Brown with pensioners in south-east London? Photograph: Carl de Souza/AFP/PA John Major had his soapbox, and Tony Blair a battlebus. Barack Obama relied heavily on the web. Gordon Brown, however, is going to deploy a different sort of secret weapon at... Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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103 people, to be followed by as many as 2,000 more city employees this year. Birmingham is one of England's oldest industrial cities, although it has almost no industry today. In the past, companies like Dunlop, Austin, Vickers and Morris had factories... Full Article at Free Internet Press
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Time since 1997 – we have enough evidence to know that direct, public challenge is something the Prime Minister neither invites nor enjoys. Downing Street briefed afterwards that this was part of a ''masochism'' strategy designed to expose Mr Brown to... Full Article at The Telegraph
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Blair was paid by a South Korean oil firm for advice. Photograph: Chris Hondros/Getty Images Tony Blair has received cash from a South Korean oil firm in a deal kept secret until the business appointments watchdog intervened, the Guardian has learned. ... Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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He begins by digging out a YouTube clip of Tony Blair's savaging of John Major pre-1997 (echoes of today's PMQs, apparently) but then gets sidetracked by a more recent clip, below, of a 2006 exchange between Blair and David Cameron on NHS spending. ... Full Article at New Statesman
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Michael Savage observes that Cameron’s denunciation of Brown’s 'weak' premiership recalled Tony Blair’s famous savaging of the ‘weak, weak, weak’ Major government. Here it is: After watching that, I chanced upon an exchange between Blair and Cameron,... Full Article at Spectator Magazine
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Act Fellowship is a programme initiated by the Tony Blair Faith Foundation and the Inter Faith Youth Core to bring together young people of diverse faith to raise awareness and funds to end malaria. Jessica Beckerman, co-executive director of Project... Full Article at Community Newswire
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I'll cut the deficit, not the NHS." At first, coverage focused on the apparent airbrushing of Cameron's features (denied in his recent interview with Trevor McDonald), and the clear echo of prime-period Tony Blair. But within a fortnight, the story had... Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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If Peter had said: ‘This would not be justified lawfully’, we would have been unable to take action. A lot hung on that decision. Therefore, it was important it was by the Attorney General and done in a way which we were satisfied was correct.
– Tony Blair SOURCE: Herald Scotland -
I hopped on a train and met Polanski and the first question across the table was, 'Am I playing Tony Blair?' He said, 'No, you're not playing Tony Blair.' However, all roads, indications, emblems and stories seemed to point to him, so I looked at Tony Blair, his performance of Tony Blair being Prime Min...
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In the end [the war] was divisive and I'm sorry about that
– Tony Blair SOURCE: Time Magazine -
The word 'education' repeated thrice was something that continually came back to bite Tony Blair when he was Prime Minister
SOURCE: Portadown Today -
I think all countries who took military action believed they had a sound legal basis for doing so.
– Tony Blair SOURCE: The Daily Telegraph -
I met Roman in Paris for lunch having read the screenplay, and my first question was: 'How do I do this, am I playing Tony Blair?' and he said: 'No, no, you're not playing Tony Blair, just play.' So I felt liberated, knowing I could play the ex-British prime minister Tony Blair. In the book and in the t...
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I realised we could not take risks with these people at all.
– Tony Blair SOURCE: Times Online -
We were making it hard for ourselves to appeal to a broad cross-section of society. There is very little you can give this government credit for. But the one area I have always publicly been willing to credit them for – and Tony Blair – was showing leadership in relation to gay issues and equality. We n...
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The American view, throughout, has been, ‘This leopard isn’t going to change his spots — he was always going to be difficult’
– Tony Blair SOURCE: Times Online -
Tony Blair, as the Quartet representative, will intensify his partnership with Senator Mitchell in support of the political negotiations
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You could not take risks with this issue at all. And one dimension of it -- because we were advised, obviously, that these people would use chemical or biological weapons or a nuclear device, if they could get hold of them -- that completely changed our assessment of where the risks for security lay
– Tony Blair SOURCE: GlobalSecurity.org -
Tony Blair and the government made a decision. He has to stand by that decision.
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I believed beyond doubt Saddam Hussein had WMDs
– Tony Blair SOURCE: GlobalSecurity.org -
Tony Blair said that unemployment in this country was finished but I'm afraid that myth's been disproven ... In credit crunch Britain we've got massive unemployment. In Salford alone we've got almost 42% youth unemployment, so we're standing up for their rights. The figures are still climbing with peopl...
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And just so that we make this absolutely clear: This was not an American position. This was my position and the British position.
– Tony Blair SOURCE: GlobalSecurity.org -
If there is not a public session with the person who more than any relayed intelligence to the PM (prime minister Tony Blair at the time), the inquiry will be undermined
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Responsibility, but not a regret for removing Saddam Hussein. I think he was a monster. I believed he threatened not just the region, but the world.
– Tony Blair SOURCE: Liverpool Daily Post -
Tony Blair deceived Parliament about the grounds for invading Iraq because he believed it was right to go to war, the inquiry into the conflict has heard. Former Cabinet minister Clare Short accused the ex-prime minister of ‘leaning on’ attorney general Lord Goldsmith to make him mislead the Government ...
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It isn't about a lie or a conspiracy or a deceit or a deception
– Tony Blair SOURCE: ABC Online -
Tony Blair was our prime minister, he did what he believed and still believes to be the right thing and I was a member of the government and stood by that then
SOURCE: EUbusiness -
In the end it was divisive. And I'm sorry about that
– Tony Blair SOURCE: ABC Online -
It was not a decisionmaking body. I don't think there was ever a substantive discussion in Cabinet. If you ever raised an issue with Tony Blair he would cut it off. The machinery of government had broken down quite badly. But when you add secrecy and deceit, it's positively dangerous.
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Even with all my experience in dealing with interviews, it still indicates that I have got something to learn about it
– Tony Blair SOURCE: The National Newspaper -
I noticed Tony Blair in his evidence to you kept saying, 'I had to decide, I had to decide'. And indeed that's how he behaved. But that is not meant to be our system of government. When you add secrecy and deceit, the system becomes positively dangerous.
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I had to take this decision as prime minister. It was a huge responsibility then and there is not a single day that passes by that I do not think about that responsibility, and so I should
– Tony Blair SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited
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