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Blair to the rescue – but does Miliband need Toxic Tony?

So, Tony Blair has let it be known that he will do “whatever the party wants” to help Labour under Ed Miliband win the election, The Observer reported yesterday. But is Blair suddenly being generous ... read more

Tony Blair riding to the rescue on Brexit? Right message, wrong man

Immigrants have often been essential but our economy has been bingeing on cheap labour when we need ... that there does not seem to be another charismatic and convincing proponent of the case for the ... read more

The ghost of Falkirk looms large for Miliband

He likened Miliband to the mayor of a Sicilian Mafia town, afraid to stand up to those who put him in office. Now, just when Miliband must have felt things couldn’t get much worse, Tony Benn, the arch ... read more

All shook up: this election result upended stale assumptions about “centrist” politics

The result of the UK general election is still generating shock waves and will do so for ... the left of Tony Blair would lead to electoral slaughter. This view extended to senior BBC broadcasters who ... read more

Perfidious Albion hands murderous Assad a spectacular victory

Ed Miliband, who has failed to connect to the British electorate and is unloved by his own party, and who saw an opportunity for political gain. He seized a chance to distance himself from his reviled ... read more

Holding back on Syria reinforces Israel’s view that it fights alone

It involved an unimpressive Labour leader, Ed Miliband, who saw an opportunity for political gain. He seized a chance to distance himself from his predecessor Tony Blair, and no doubt ... of mass ... read more

David Miliband of the International Rescue Committee: ‘The Devil Can’t Have the Best Tunes’

David Miliband took a different path. A rising star in British politics, Mr. Miliband was just 29 when he became an adviser to Prime Minister Tony Blair. He then joined Parliament ... executive of the ... read more

Stop worrying about spin and get on with telling great stories

Before then the word ‘spin’ had less toxic connotations ... experience of coming to the rescue of a person who had been assaulted on the streets of Islington in London. This was shortly after he ... read more

Philanthropists need to ask themselves hard questions about where their money is going

When David Miliband was appointed chief executive of the International Rescue Committee, one of the largest global ... variously serving as foreign secretary; Tony Blair’s head of policy; and ... read more

William Keegan: Death of the Labour Party is greatly exaggerated

is that things were going very badly for Labour during the 2005 election campaign until Chancellor Gordon Brown was called to the rescue. So, reminiscences of the putative wonders of Tony Blair need ... read more

Tories' impossible task

Tony Blair, the Prime Minister ... John Flack. 'We need only 717 people to switch back,' said Andrew Lee, Flack's agent, hopefully. 'Stephen Twigg votes religiously for everything the Government does, ... read more

'Toxic' Tony Blair holds secret talks with Ed Miliband

Tony Blair has become such a toxic figure for Labour that four of the ... So supporters of ‘Red Ed’ Miliband will be bemused to hear that he felt the need to hold private talks with the controversial ... read more