As domestic arguments go, it’s one that’s been raging for decades, and probably with the greatest intensity. Who does, or more importantly doesn’t, shoulder the bulk of the housework in a relationship? Former prime minister Tony Blair reignited the row at the weekend when he revealed he hasn’t done any laundry or cooked since 1997, … Read more
All pupils should be tested for coronavirus at school to prove it’s safe to return, Tony Blair‘s think-tank has urged the Prime Minister. Parents will be too scared of coronavirus to send their children to school in September unless stricter testing systems are put in place, the Institute for Global Change found. There is an … Read more
Labour ex-Cabinet minister Lord Mandelson bids to become next head of the World Trade Organisation saying the system ‘needs fixing’ as Downing Street lines up Liam Fox as a rival candidate Tony Blair’s ex-political fixer set out his stall to become new director general He said global trade was ‘is not in good health and … Read more
Labour Left blasts Sir Keir Starmer for taking advice from ‘hated’ former Prime Minister Tony Blair Labour’s hard-Left last night branded Sir Kier Starmer ‘Continuity Blair’ MPs who dislike former PM Tony Blair after Starmer consulted with predecessor Sources say they spoke ‘more than once’ but refused to say what talked about By Brendan Carlin … Read more
The number of UK workers on the payroll tumbled by 600,000 between March and May amid warnings of ‘disaster’. Official figures showed employment was down 0.8 per cent in April, as the impact of the coronavirus lockdown started to be felt. The jobless rate was up 0.1 per cent month-on-month while inactivity rose significantly and … Read more
Remainer peer passed on information to ‘very good contacts in the region’ to help expose Dominic Cummings’s alleged Covid-19 breach when he drove to Durham Former Durham MP Hilary Armstrong is being feted by Labour colleagues Sources revealed that Lady Armstrong received reports about six weeks ago She passed on the ‘tip off’ that he … Read more
Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair questions Trump’s leadership in facing ‘terrifying’ coronavirus pandemic and says the ‘absence of global coordination’ worries him Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, who served from 1997 to 2007, questioned President Donald Trump’s leadership amid the pandemic in an interview Friday He pointed out that there’s a lack of global … Read more
Tony Blair‘s Chief Scientific Adviser when he was prime minister today claimed it is not safe to reopen schools on June 1 as scores of councils pulled their support. Sir David King, who chairs the ‘Independent Sage’ committee, said it is ‘too soon’ for children to return and claims ‘new modelling’ found the risk to children … Read more
Tony Blair has said Boris Johnson‘s administration is right to be opening schools again. The Prime Minister’s plans to start sending children back to school next month has come under attack from teaching unions and some local authorities, with critics arguing it is too soon to lift the coronavirus-related lockdown restrictions. Mr Johnson, in his … Read more
With the birth of his son in the early hours of this morning, Boris Johnson becomes only the fourth Prime Minister in 150 years to welcome a baby to Downing Street. His fiancée Carrie Symonds, 32, is thought to be still in the NHS London hospital where she gave birth but will soon return to … Read more