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  • Tuesday, 31 December, 2024
    UK government lobbied Libya for arms deal with BAE Systems

    Links between Gaddafi and Blair in 2004 revealed by newly released letter

    Tony Blair meets Muammer Gaddafi in March 2004
  • Tuesday, 31 December, 2024
    UK questioned US ‘control’ over its Iraq tactics one year into invasion

    Newly released documents reveal growing British frustration with Washington’s handling of the conflict in 2004

    US soldiers stand guard at the first check point at the entrance in Fallujah, Iraq, 29 April 2004
  • Friday, 29 December, 2023
    Thatcher signed off on top secret ‘Spycatcher’ leak to journalist

    Declassified documents show then prime minister approved 1980 plan to disclose MI5 espionage probe into former chief

    Margaret Thatcher and Sir Robert Armstrong
  • Friday, 29 December, 2023
    Blair government sought treaty to share Parthenon marbles with Greece

    Attempts to resolve 200-year dispute were blocked by British Museum, newly released documents show

    The Parthenon marbles on display at the British Museum
  • Friday, 29 December, 2023
    Blair ignored warnings from senior colleagues about ID card scheme

    Labour prime minister pushed ahead with plan in face of strong opposition 20 years ago, official documents show

    Protesters wearing masks impersonating Tony Blair demonstrating against ID cards outside the Houses of Parliament in 2006
  • Friday, 29 December, 2023
    Blair tried to change BBC tone on Iraq on eve of 2003 invasion

    Then UK prime minister accused journalists of lacking balance and ‘editorialising’, newly released documents reveal

    Tony Blair during a joint press conference with US president George W Bush in 2003, shortly after the start of the Iraq war
  • Friday, 29 December, 2023
    Blair government considered detaining asylum seekers on Scottish island

    Official papers show Labour also considered removing people to ‘safe third country’ to tackle clandestine migration

    Tobermory on the Isle of Mull
  • Thursday, 21 December, 2023
    Richard Ovenden
    Destroying historical wills is foolhardy and short-sighted

    The MoJ’s consultation on digitising these documents fails to consider crucial points

    An archivist with a copy of the Magna Carta. Huge amounts of information can be gleaned from the paper, ink, seals and stamps used in original documents
  • Friday, 30 December, 2022
    Blair argued Putin deserved a seat at the ‘top table’

    Newly released files show the UK premier’s efforts to woo the Russian president despite deep misgivings of officials

    Tony Blair with Vladimir Putin in London in 2000
  • Friday, 30 December, 2022
    Blair intervened in US-China spy plane dispute

    Labour PM sought to cultivate links with Bush and strengthen UK relations with Beijing in aftermath of 2001 crash

    The damaged US EP-3 aircraft on Hainan island in June 2001
  • Friday, 30 December, 2022
    Blair explored plans to ‘break’ Opec to cut oil prices, files reveal

    Senior officials discussed regime change in Iraq and encouraging countries to leave the cartel

    Tony Blair in 2002
  • Tuesday, 9 August, 2022
    Donald Trump
    Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence raided by FBI agents

    Republicans decry search related to former president’s handling of classified information

    Supporters of former US president Donald Trump carrying flags stand outside his residence in Mar-A-Lago, Palm Beach, Florida on Monday
  • Thursday, 6 January, 2022
    Clinton calls twice broke deadlock in Good Friday talks, papers reveal

    Last-minute intervention by former US president rescued peace deal at critical point in 1998 negotiations

  • Thursday, 30 December, 2021
    Paddy Ashdown suggested ‘hemispherical’ House of Commons in 1998

    Papers show that former Lib Dem leader also tried to court Ken Clarke into cross-party co-operation with Tony Blair

    Prime Minister Tony Blair, right, and Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown pictured in June 1998 after coming to an agreement on constitutional reform
  • Thursday, 30 December, 2021
    Clinton-Lewinsky affair was seen as ‘major opportunity’ for Blair on 1998 US visit

    Former PM seized chance to capitalise on attention generated by White House scandal, papers show

    Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky
  • Thursday, 30 December, 2021
    Tony Blair blocked action on Macpherson report on UK race relations

    Private memos show Number 10 pushback thwarted plan by Jack Straw to launch white paper on improving race relations

    Sir William Macpherson
  • Monday, 19 July, 2021
    Blair’s defence secretary berated Foreign Office over delays to Hawk jet exports

    George Robertson sent critical letter to Robin Cook siding with British Aerospace chief over arms sales to Indonesia in 1997

    George Robertson and Robin Cook in 1999
  • Monday, 19 July, 2021
    Gordon Brown held ‘gun to head’ of Eddie George over BoE independence

    Civil service chief warned Tony Blair over risks of chancellor’s ‘rushed’ approach with central bank governor

    Gordon Brown and Eddie George
  • Wednesday, 30 December, 2020
    UK politics
    Prank calls fooled Tory MPs into easing opposition to Europe policy

    National Archive documents show Rory Bremner’s John Major impersonation duped two Eurosceptics

  • Wednesday, 30 December, 2020
    UK minister urged closer European integration to shore up currency in 1976

    Officials also considered turning Britain into a ‘siege economy’ as the value of the pound dropped

  • Wednesday, 30 December, 2020
    John Major’s refusal to express regret for Bloody Sunday angered ally

    PM saw it as ‘sop to nationalists’ but decision undermined moderates and infuriated N Ireland secretary

  • Wednesday, 30 December, 2020
    MI5 sought warrant against exiled Philby to stifle Frost TV interview

    Whitehall feared former spy would discuss how the security service listened in on British Communist party’s HQ

  • Sunday, 5 January, 2020
    UK politics
    John Major pondered internment after IRA ceasefire collapse

    Newly released papers underline deep concern stirred up by Canary Wharf bombing

    The IRA ended an 18-month ceasefire with a large bomb at London’s Canary Wharf
  • Tuesday, 31 December, 2019
    Young John Bercow boasted of left-bashing prowess, files reveal

    Ex-Speaker made the claim in a 1995 application to be special adviser to Jonathan Aitken

    Britain's Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, speaks at New York University in New York City, U.S., September 16, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
  • Tuesday, 31 December, 2019
    Major pondered Atlantic trade zone to thwart Blair, files reveal

    Officials told to explore feasibility of establishing a new ‘Atlantic community’

    British Prime Minister John Major shields his eyes from the light during his press conference in Cannes at the end of the European Summit in this French Riviera resort Tuesday June 27, 1995.(AP Photo/Martin Cleaver)
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