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 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 would … 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
Tony Blair today insisted decisions on how to ease the coronavirus lockdown must be taken now – warning ministers cannot allow a ‘void’ while Boris Johnson recovers from the disease. The former PM underlined his demand for mass testing and a fundamental reorganisation of government, with experts being pulled in from business to help a … Read more
Tony Blair says Boris Johnson’s government is ‘overwhelmed’ by the coronavirus crisis and that ‘mass testing must be at the heart’ of their strategy Tony Blair today said he was offering constructive advice and not criticism The 66-year-old said the current government needed to be re organised Said it was the most ‘difficult challenge’ he … Read more
Top business figures from across industry should be brought into the top of Government to work alongside ministers to focus the UK’s ‘collective firepower’ on beating coronavirus, Tony Blair said today. The former Labour prime minister said that the Government needed a complete overhaul of the way it works in order to be in a … Read more
Tony Blair calls for senior minister to be put in charge of mass coronavirus testing as pandemic approaches peak in the UK Former PM Tony Blair demands Government minister takes charge of virus tests Mr Blair’s intervention came amid concern over if UK will meet its testing goal The Government has set a target of … Read more
Michael Gove hints at looming austerity after government’s massive coronavirus bailouts amid fears of 2.75million jobless by June and a 10 per cent hit to GDP Cabinet minister Michael Gove says UK coronavirus debt will have to be paid Government has announced unprecedented bailouts for workers and firms Forecasters warn jobless total could hit 2.75m … Read more
Britain might have to carry out 180million coronavirus tests to defeat the deadly disease, Tony Blair suggested today. The former PM said ‘mass testing’ is vital and it will need to carry on for a long time, as even if the lockdown can be eased there is a threat of ‘resurgence’. He said ‘virtually everyone’ … Read more
Britain is finally carrying out 10,000 tests per day to diagnose coronavirus, Michael Gove confirmed today. Amid mounting criticism, the Cabinet minister insisted the government was ‘very concerned’ about the growing death toll and was doing ‘all that we can’ to ‘accelerate’ the numbers of tests. But he declined to give a timescale for when … Read more
Former trade union lawyer Richard Burgon is the Jeremy Corbyn Continuity candidate to be Labour’s deputy leader. Yet the Shadow Justice Secretary has kept an embarrassing secret from his Corbynite supporters — he was a Tony Blair fan as a student. In an interview with student newspaper Varsity in 2002, when he was chairman of … Read more
Police probe Labour ex-minister’s expenses after he paid £30,000-per-year salary to a long-term friend who was working in his office aged 89 Scotland Yard has launched criminal investigatio into expenses of ex-Labour MP Police began probe into Geoffrey Robinson over £30k salary paid to his friend Mail on Sunday previously reported Robinson’s alleged spying for … Read more