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5 days ago · So it was quite a turnaround when Labour, under the leadership of the youthful Tony Blair, won the May 1, 1997 general election by a landslide. “New Labour, New Britain” was the party’s slogan, and “Things can only get better” by D-ream was its theme song. Under Blair, Labour won a majority of 179 seats, even bigger than the party’s ...
3 hours ago · Tony Blair keeps texting Keir Starmer with advice. Keir Starmer has revealed that he regular receives texts from former prime minister Tony Blair with advice on what he needs to do. The Labour leader revealed the detail while talking to the The Independent ’s John Rentoul at his election count in north London just hours before he was ...
3 days ago · Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, former British Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown arrive ahead of the proclamation of King Charles III on September 10, 2022 in London. Kirsty O’Connor ...
3 days ago · I recall, during the 2005 general election campaign, in which Labour won a third consecutive victory, albeit with a much reduced majority, Tony Blair asking me how I thought Bury was going.
1 day ago · The United Kingdom’s newly elected Keir Starmer has announced key members of his ministerial team after his centre-left Labour Party’s landslide general election victory ended 14 years of ...
2 days ago · In contrast, Keir Starmer has played a small target strategy. Keir Rodney Starmer may have led Labour to a landslide election victory, but the parallels with Tony Blair’s 1997 landslide end ...
3 days ago · Compared to those seats won by Tony Blair in 1997, the distribution of Labour's vote on 4 July is likely to be higher in places with more graduates and lower in areas with a more working-class electorate. But the party is likely to do similarly as well in areas of high socio-economic deprivation. New heartlands?
