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Speaking at his monthly news briefing on 16 March 2006, Tony Blair confirmed his knowledge of the loans but denied any connection between the large loans from three private individuals and whether they were subsequently nominated for honours. [70] Blair said all three men were known party donors and would have made excellent Labour "working peers".
Blair has used his Quartet Tony Blair Associates works with the Kazakhstan government, advising the regime on judicial, economic and political reforms, but has been subject to criticism after accusations of "whitewashing" the image and human rights record of the regime.
During its first year in office, the Blair Government made the controversial decision of cutting Lone Parent Benefit, which led to abstentions amongst many Labour MPs. In March 1998, however, Brown responded in his Budget statement by increasing child benefit by £2.50 a week above the rate of inflation, the largest ever increase in the benefit.
Blair caused a bit of controversy himself when he published his memoir A Journey: My Political Life, revealing information from private discussions with the queen and times spent with the royal ...
As a former prime minister of Britain, Tony Blair's memoir has been a highly anticipated event for months. His ten-year tenure in office encompassed the start of the Iraq War and ended just before ...
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair did not issue a list by June 2007, apparently because of the "Cash for Honours scandal". [3] Gordon Brown did not publish a resignation honours list either, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] but a dissolution list was issued on his advice (to similar effect).
Iraq – Its Infrastructure of Concealment, Deception and Intimidation [1] (more commonly known as the Iraq Dossier, the February Dossier [2] or the Dodgy Dossier) was a 2003 briefing document for the British prime minister Tony Blair's Labour Party government.
Tony Blair’s government accused Israel of allowing its troops to run “out of control” during a major military incursion into the occupied West Bank, newly released official files show.