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Tony Blair stories: 82 news summaries

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Faith Doesn't Play in British Politics

Blair complains that any UK pol who cites God
is considered  'a nutter'

Nov 25, 07 6:18 PM CST
(Newser) - Soon-to-be-Catholic Tony Blair has confessed that faith was "hugely important"  in decisions he made as Britain's prime minister, and he wished he could, like President Bush, have been open about it at the time. But Britons are suspicious of religion, Blair said in a TV interview reported in... More »

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Tony Blair • Christianity • religion • God • government • Catholicism • Britain • Alastair Campbell • Iraq war

Blair Floats
Palestinian Jobs Plan

Mideast envoy offers 'quick impact
project' ahead of Annapolis summit

Nov 19, 07 11:00 AM CST
(Newser) - In his first major undertaking as the international community's Mideast envoy, Tony Blair will disclose plans today to provide tens of thousands of jobs for Palestinians, the Guardian reports. The multimillion-dollar projects come in the lead-up to the peace talks in Annapolis next week. "This is part of the... More »

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Tony Blair • Middle East • Gaza • Palestine • West Bank • Israel and Palestinians

Blair to Convert to Catholicism

Long-rumored move expected in next few weeks

Nov 10, 07 2:36 PM CST
(Newser) - Tony Blair will officially become a Catholic in the next few weeks, a Catholic newspaper says, after years of signing off on Anglican appointments as prime minister. The conversion isn't a shock—Blair often attended Mass with his Catholic wife and child. But the Church of England’s official status,... More »

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Tony Blair • Catholic Church • Anglican Church • England • religion

UK Secretary
in DC to Mend Fences With US

Miliband eases Bush-Brown chill, backs Rice's Iran approach

Oct 23, 07 9:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - The British foreign secretary arrived in Washington last night, and David Miliband now faces the unenviable task of mending a deepening rift between the Bush administration and Gordon Brown. The speed of the UK's pullback in Basra—not to mention the PM's coolness toward President Bush—has irked a White... More »

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Tony Blair • Condoleezza Rice • Gordon Brown • David Miliband • George W. Bush

Nobel Laureate Downplays 9/11

Lessing: IRA violence
in Ireland was worse than WTC attacks;
Americans are 'naive'

Oct 23, 07 9:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Freshly minted Nobel laureate Doris Lessing said the 9/11 terrorist assault on the World Trade Center “wasn’t that terrible” in comparison to violence wreaked by the IRA in Britain. "Some Americans will think I'm crazy," she said in an interview in Spanish daily El Pais. "... More »

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Tony Blair • Ireland • IRA • Nobel Prize • Doris Lessing • George W. Bush

In London, Giuliani Picks Up Cred and Cash

Hopeful meets with three PMs and no shortage of donors

Sep 20, 07 8:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rudy Giuliani left behind the cornfields of Iowa for cosmopolitan London yesterday, where he met with campaign contributors and no fewer than three prime ministers. After a visit to Tony Blair's new offices and to Gordon Brown at No. 10, Giuliani got his most desired photo-op of all, writes the... More »

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Rudy Giuliani • Tony Blair • London • presidential campaign • Gordon Brown • Margaret Thatcher

Brown Leans Right In Major Speech

PM's first address to unions rebuffs
demands for pay raises

Sep 10, 07 12:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - Gordon Brown received a cool reception in his first address as prime minister to Britain's Trade Union Conference, traditionally Labour's largest constituency. After 10 years of tense relations with Tony Blair, the unions had hoped that Brown would offer a more left-wing policy. But Brown insisted that he would oppose... More »

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Tony Blair • United Kingdom • Gordon Brown • unions • Labour Party • trade unions • Britain

UK Asks US to Release Gitmo Suspects

Brown wants 5 Britons freed from US custody in change of policy

Aug 7, 07 4:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - The United Kingdom wants the US to let go of five British residents detained at the terrorist detention camp at Guantanamo Bay. Green PM Gordon Brown made the official request, hinting that he may be distancing himself from the Bush administration and carving a more independent terror policy than Tony... More »

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Bush administration • Tony Blair • terrorism • United Kingdom • State Department • Gordon Brown • Guantanamo Bay • prisoners • terrorist • foreign policy • Britain

Blair Debuts as Mideast Envoy

Ex-PM the only one smiling as he tackles plan to build a viable Palestinian state

Jul 23, 07 3:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Less than a month after vacating 10 Downing, Tony Blair jumped into his new role as Mideast peace envoy today, meeting Jordanian and Israeli leaders in Jerusalem. Tomorrow he  sits down with  Palestinian PM Mahmoud Abbas, and Wednesday with Israeli PM Ehud Olmert. Blair remains upbeat in the face of... More »

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Tony Blair • Ehud Olmert • Mahmoud Abbas • Palestine • Jerusalem • Mideast envoy

Hamas Rips Blair Peace Mission

Former Brit chief  'not honest, not helpful'

Jun 28, 07 5:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hamas, the Palestinian group now in control of Gaza, blasted Tony Blair's appointment as a Mideast peace envoy yesterday, characterizing the former British prime minister as "not honest and not helpful," and a puppet of the US and Israel, the BBC reports. Blair's new role, formalized hours after... More »

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Palestinian Authority • Tony Blair • Middle East • Gaza • Mahmoud Abbas • Hamas • Fatah • West Bank • envoy

Exit Blair

PM takes final questions; queen asks Brown to form government

Jun 27, 07 8:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - Tony Blair handed his resignation to the queen at 1:15 this afternoon, ending a decade as prime minister of the United Kingdom marked by unprecedented prosperity but marred by a deeply unpopular war in Iraq. In a choreographed ritual, Elizabeth II asked Chancellor Gordon Brown, who has been waiting... More »

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Iraq • Tony Blair • United Kingdom • Gordon Brown • Queen Elizabeth II • war • Britain • Iraq war

UK Change of Guard Today

Blair will quit Parliament as Brown begins government shakeup

Jun 27, 07 4:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Tony Blair is expected to resign from Parliament today as he vacates 10 Downing Street and is confirmed as the new international envoy to the Mideast. Gordon Brown, whose luggage is waiting curbside, will begin his shakeup of the government, with at least six ministers targeted for replacement, the Guardian... More »

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Tony Blair • United Kingdom • Gordon Brown • Labour Party • Britain

Blair Tapped as Mideast Envoy

He'll prepare Palestinians for Israeli talks

Jun 26, 07 4:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - Tony Blair will move into a key post as international Mideast peace envoy after  wrapping up 10 years as British prime minister tomorrow. President Bush personally mounted an "enormous push"  for the appointment, which will be based in Jerusalem and will involve working with the Palestinians to prepare... More »

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Israel • Tony Blair • Middle East • Palestine • Hamas • Fatah • envoy • Iraq war

Brown Vows to Lead New Era

Blair successor
as Labour chief
pledges to 'learn lessons' of Iraq

Jun 25, 07 5:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Vowing to "heed and lead the call of change," Gordon Brown yesterday took the reins of Britain's ruling Labour Party before stepping into his new role as prime minister Wednesday. Brown is expected to loosen the close ties to Bush foreign policy that marked the Blair era and... More »

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Iraq • Tony Blair • Gordon Brown • Labour Party • Britain

Blair to Convert to Catholicism

Being Anglican was politically expedient, but the PM's been drawn to the Roman church for 30 years

Jun 22, 07 5:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - Tony Blair is about to become a Roman Catholic, the Guardian reports. His wife is a practicing Catholic, his children were raised in the faith, and the PM has attended mass with them often. But political considerations have kept him officially Anglican all these years. With his last day in... More »

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Tony Blair • Catholic Church • Anglican Church • religion • Catholicism

US Eyes Blair as
Mideast Envoy

Soon-to-be-former PM would focus on groundwork for a Palestinian state

Jun 21, 07 7:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Outgoing British PM Tony Blair may step into a new role as a Mideast envoy focusing on the development of a viable Palestinian state, the Washington Post reports. Blair would concentrate on economic and governance issues; he would represent the quartet of world players involved in Mideast peace efforts—the... More »

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Palestinian Authority • Russia • Tony Blair • Middle East • Ehud Olmert • Condoleezza Rice • United States

Report: Blair Knew Bush Had No Postwar Plan

PM dispatched troops despite lack of Iraq reconstruction strategy

Jun 17, 07 8:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - In the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, Tony Blair committed British troops to the effort despite knowing of serious deficiencies in US preparations for the aftermath, a TV documentary set to air this week reveals. He pushed ahead even after President Bush offered him an out, the Observer reports,... More »

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Bush administration • Tony Blair • British troops • Iraq war • George W. Bush

Saudi Prince Pocketed $2B
in Arms Deal

British arms giant BAE said to have paid 'fees' to Bandar for 10 years

Jun 7, 07 6:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia, the former Saudi ambassador to the US and a close friend of President Bush, allegedly accepted nearly $2 billion from the British arms giant BAE  in connection with an $86-billion arms deal. The Guardian claims the payments, made in $60-million increments over 10 years, through... More »

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Tony Blair • Saudi Arabia • investigation • fraud • Scotland Yard • Prince Bandar • BAE • arms deal

Blair: I'll Talk Bush Into Emissions Agreement

Lame-duck PM wants UN-approved treaty

Jun 6, 07 7:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - Heading into his final G8 summit, Tony Blair is thinking big: He says he can persuade President Bush to agree to a UN-backed treaty to reduce carbon emissions by 50%, today's Guardian reports. Blair hopes to reach at least an agreement in principle, but officials fear negotiations will continue to... More »

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climate change • Tony Blair • global warming • G8 summit • George W. Bush • carbon emissions

Blair Looks Back on Tenure as PM

"We will not succeed simply by military or security means. It is
a political challenge."

Jun 1, 07 12:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - In a wide-ranging essay that offers few apologies, Tony Blair reflects on his decade as prime minister and argues that Britain must stand in the world as “a player not a spectator.” Writing in the Economist, Blair discusses the shifting landscape of his time in office, the challenges... More »

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