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‘Imbecilic’: Ex-UK leader Tony Blair slams Afghan withdrawal

August 22, 2021 5:19 pm

“The abandonment of Afghanistan and its people is tragic, dangerous, unnecessary, not in their interests and not in ours,” said Blair who served as prime minister during 1997-2007, a period that also saw him back the U.S.-led war in Iraq in 2003

The lesson of Tony Blair’s long hair

May 03, 2021 2:35 pm

Although Blair was on camera to discuss devolution and the possibility of another Scottish independence referendum, it was clear almost immediately that his evolution from chipper, reform-minded PM with slightly spiky New Labour/Cool Britannia-era hair to Samson-like figure was making most of the news.

Integration calculus

April 25, 2019 12:07 am

Tony Blair’s call to integrate migrants better with British society suggests discomfort with the new Britain

Out of my mind: Resolving a crisis

November 25, 2018 1:45 am

The idea that the UK should leave the EU was unthinkable just five years ago. Those demanding it were mainly on the Right-wing political fringe, but there was also a Left demand for quitting the “capitalist” Common Market.

Tony Blair says UK needs a referendum to stop Brexit

October 11, 2018 3:12 pm

Less than six months before the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union, there is little clarity about how the world's fifth largest economy and its preeminent international financial centre will trade with the EU after Brexit.

Tony Blair tells UK voters: Time is running out to stop Brexit folly

January 04, 2018 5:52 pm

More than a year and a half since the 2016 Brexit vote, the United Kingdom remains deeply divided over the planned EU exit that Prime Minister Theresa May says will take place on March 29, 2019.

Tony Blair calls for EU migration curbs to avoid Brexit

September 10, 2017 7:57 pm

He writes: "We can curtail the things that people feel are damaging about European immigration, both by domestic policy change and by agreeing change within Europe. This is precisely the territory the Labour Party should camp upon."

Tony Blair, John Major planning to warn citizens on how Brexit threatens UK's unity

June 09, 2016 1:38 pm

Voting against staying in the EU could undermine the peace in Northern Ireland and stoking calls for Scottish independence.

Remains of Blair’s day

October 27, 2015 12:00 am

Blair didn’t say sorry for the armed intervention and the war itself, and defended the removal of Saddam Hussein from power.

Iraq invasion: Tony Blair’s apology that isn’t

October 26, 2015 7:00 pm

Looking down the barrel at Sir John Chilcot’s official enquiry into the Iraq war Blair has come closer than ever before to the apology he vowed he’d never make.

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