The Latest Breaking News from Tony Blair

My all-time favourite “line to take” – that is, the set of pre-agreed talking points politicians stick to – came from general election night 2001. Tony Blair’s Labour Party was romping towards a second successive landslide, and the media was searching for a more interesting story. Turns out, it was…

ASK ME ANYTHING: In this exclusive Q&A session, The Independent’s political commentator Andrew Grice addresses key dynamics in the Tory leadership race, and what we can expect when Kemi Badenoch or Robert Jenrick takes the helm

An 18 per cent year-on-year rise in rough sleeping drags mayor Sadiq Khan further from his target of eliminating street homelessness in London by 2030

Ask two Blairites when the New Labour project died, and you might get three different answers. The first is June 2007, when Tony Blair stood down as prime minister. The second is May 2008, when the party ran a class-based (and unsuccessful) campaign at the Crewe and Nantwich by-election. While…

Keir Starmer has appointed a former aide to Sir Tony Blair and Gordon Brown as his new political director ...

Claire Reynolds will be in charge of liaising with MPs across the Parliamentary Labour Party.

Claire Reynolds will be in charge of liaising with MPs across the Parliamentary Labour Party

Claire Reynolds, the director of Labour Women’s Network, will take on task of liaison between No 10, party and MPs

Hamish Falconer says legislation under consideration by Knesset is ‘neither in Israel’s interest nor realistic’

A debate about reparations for Britain’s role in the slave trade overshadowed a summit in Samoa of the Commonwealth, many of whose member nations were once British colonies

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