Mr Tony

How Angela Rayner could go from Labour’s trump card to their millstone

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“She is the only politician from any party that working-class voters name as someone they like.” One is a wealthy, Oxford-educated lawyer from North London, the other is a scrappy, working-class Northerner who quickly gets into trouble for speaking his mind. We could be talking about Tony Blair and John Prescott here, but the description … Read more

Blair said scrapping Horizon would damage relations with Japan

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Britain’s relationship with Japan was one of the factors taken into account when Tony Blair, pictured in 1997, decided to go ahead with Horizon – Thomas Imo/Photothek The Foreign Office warned Sir Tony Blair that scrapping the Horizon plan would damage relations with Japan, The Telegraph can reveal. The former Prime Minister ordered officials to … Read more