Tony Blair was warned of 'appalling' attack on UK after 9/11
Jul 19, 2023 · Tony Blair was warned there could be a UK terrorist attack "even more appalling" than 9/11, declassified government documents have revealed. Days after the 2001 US attacks, the then prime...
Margaret Thatcher sent handwritten note praising Tony Blair …
Jul 19, 2023 · Baroness Thatcher sent a handwritten note to Sir Tony Blair after the invasion of Afghanistan praising him for the “resolve” he was showing in foreign affairs.
PM ‘totally disagrees’ with ex-Blair aide’s claim UK does not need ...
2 days ago · Sir Keir Starmer has said he totally disagrees with suggestions by one of Tony Blair’s ex-advisers that the Government should do battle with farmers in the way Margaret Thatcher did with striking miners. Former political adviser John McTernan claimed small family farms were an “industry we could do without” and signalled he was personally ...
Thatcher praised Blair for response to 9/11 terror attacks
Margaret Thatcher privately wrote to Labour prime minister Tony Blair to praise his staunch support for the United States in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, according to newly released...
Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher and why parties always turn on …
Apr 2, 2021 · Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher and why parties always turn on long-suffering PMs. As the former prime minister says he left office at his least popular, Sean O’Grady looks at why leaders get no...
Blatcherism - Wikipedia
Blatcherism is a term formed as a portmanteau of the names of two British politicians, Tony Blair (Labour Party) and Margaret Thatcher (Conservative Party). It has been used by critics of monetarism and economic liberalism to refer to the thesis that a policy model of the Thatcher government, distinct from one-nation conservatism , was ...
How Tony Blair came to be so unpopular - BBC News
Jul 9, 2016 · Could Blair have exercised decisive restraint if he had threatened to withdraw his support? Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld would have been contemptuous, but what of the American people?
Keir Starmer defends praising Thatcher in pitch for Tories
Dec 3, 2023 · Sir Keir Starmer has defended crediting Margaret Thatcher as a leader who effected "meaningful change". The Labour leader said Baroness Thatcher set loose Britain's "natural...
From Sir Keir Starmer's glitter to Margaret Thatcher's vow - Sky News
Oct 11, 2023 · While Sir Tony Blair had won his third election, he had committed to not contesting a fourth. The government was having to fight a rearguard action in the UK following the invasion of Iraq.
Tory leadership hopefuls channel Ronald Reagan, Margaret ... - Sky News
Oct 2, 2024 · Tory leadership hopefuls invoked their political idols Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in final speeches before the contest is whittled down to two.
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