The 2002 memo to Tony Blair calls Rhodri Morgan's speech "pretty grim stuff", and the then prime minister writes at the bottom "dreadful nonsense" [Crown copyright] A memo written by a Downing Street ...

ALTHOUGH religious leaders had failed in spring 2003 to dissuade the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, from pursuing military action to oust President Saddam Hussein of Iraq, they continued to lobby to curb ...

A landmark speech that was written for Rhodri Morgan by Mark Drakeford setting out the political strategy for Wales was privately dismissed as "dreadful nonsense" by Tony Blair when he was prime ...

One of the exercises that we sometimes do in the Blair years class that I co-teach at King’s College London is to list all the failures of Tony Blair’s premiership. The last time we did it ...

Labour grandee Jack Straw has called for thousands of defendants each year to be stripped of their right to elect a jury ...

Tony Blair's Labour government pushed on with plans to open the UK's borders to Eastern Europe despite mounting concerns from senior ministers, according to newly released official files.

Tony Blair attempted to amend a Gerry Adams statement on IRA disarmament, newly unsealed documents show. On April 27 2003, then-Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams gave a lengthy address on the ...