Matt Hancock has ‘stopped talking’ to Tony Blair amid accusations that the former Prime Minister pinched Government anti-Covid ideas to pass them off as his own, it was claimed last night. The Health Secretary is said to be livid after two key proposals allegedly mentioned in private conversations – an initial priority one-jab vaccine policy … Read more
Tony Blair sets out his OWN lockdown exit strategy as he calls for traffic light scheme for easing rules, localised crackdowns on Covid outbreaks and a full Treasury analysis of the cost of the roadmap Tony Blair Institute for Global Change published its own lockdown exit roadmap Think tank calls for Government to adopt a … Read more
Tony Blair’s multi-millionaire son Euan joins multi-millionaire Chancellor Rishi Sunak to urge young jobless people to try their hand at apprenticeships PM’s son Blair is chief executive of Multiverse, in which he has £70m stake Sunak is ex-banker who married an Indian tech billionaire’s daughter Joined forces to back Plan for Jobs programme to stem … Read more
All five living former prime ministers last night joined Boris Johnson in backing Mail Force’s Computers for Kids campaign. In an unprecedented show of support, Sir John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Theresa May lauded the drive to help pupils carry on learning during lockdown. Every inhabitant of No 10 from the … Read more
Two new schools will challenge the practise of pupils sitting exams at age 16. Former Downing Street aide to Tony Blair, Peter Hyman, along with brothers Ben and Tobyn Thomas, who own Thomas’s Battersea where Prince George and Princess Charlotte are pupils, are backing a campaign to scrap GCSE exams. They will be opening secondary … Read more
Tony Blair calls for 600,000 people to be vaccinated EVERY DAY to bring Britain out of Covid-19 lockdown by May Tony Blair wants 600,000 Covid vaccinations to be carried out every day He believes the country could move back to Tier Three restrictions in February Under his plans, almost all Covid restrictions could be lifted … Read more
The return of Tony Blair? Ex-Labour leader and three-term prime minister ‘advising Matt Hancock and other Tories on vaccines strategy’ because he believes he can improve ‘inadequate’ leadership Mr Blair is powerful figure in the fight to use vaccines to save lives and economy Sunday Times said he offered ‘strategic advice’ to Hancock several times … Read more
Former prime minister Tony Blair today backed demands for laptops and tablets to be given to hundreds of thousands of children who face their schools closing in the face of a surge in Covid infections. He was joined by three former education secretaries in urging Boris Johnson to help the poorest children who face an … Read more
Arch-Remainer Tony Blair says he would have BACKED the Brexit deal in House of Commons as he compares leaving the EU to ‘shock therapy’ Tony Blair said he would have voted ‘tactically’ for the Brexit trade agreement Former PM compared leaving the EU to ‘shock therapy’ for the UK to change But he warned it … Read more
Few Prime Ministers actually manage to change the countries they govern. In the past 80 years, only Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee, Margaret Thatcher, Harold Wilson and Tony Blair could claim to have done so – Wilson and Blair very much for the worse. Now, thanks to his achievement of a negotiated departure from the EU, … Read more