The Latest Breaking News from Tony Blair

The chancellor is planning to change the government’s fiscal rules to free up billions of pounds of borrowing, which she will promise to spend laying ‘the foundations of future growth’

I am starting to wonder if Keir Starmer is naïve or foolish, or both. Presenting himself as a seasoned technocrat, he has shown himself to be embarrassingly callow in the political arts: first, by announcing in isolation, significant cuts to the winter fuel allowance; second, by so woefully handling the…

As the 2024 Budget dawns the government have put out a slew of NHS announcements – but is any of it radical enough to make change?

Businessman and Labour politician who chaired the National Employment Panel and produced his key report in 2006

From the Tories’ Thatcher fixation to Labour’s Blair fetish, ideas from the past are poisoning the political present

News that no symbolic apology or reparations are planned could put Starmer on collision course with other nations

As she launches a new stage show at the Adelphi Theatre, Nick Curtis meets the Dynasty diva to hear what she really thinks about everything from the US election, to taxes, to desire

The PM is surrounded by Blairites, from Pat McFadden and Liz Kendall to Jacqui Smith and Jonathan Powell

Labour is promoting the idea of a trade-off between regulation and growth. We know where that ends, says Balanced Economy Project’s Nicholas Shaxson