Labour Hypocrisy


Crony row over TV chief made peer and minister - 04/08/98 Gus Macdonald, one time lefty; now a multi-millionaire
Blair calls for an end to gossip and trivia...then goes on Richard and Judy to gossip about trivia <-- sorry; this one's gone (Mirror)
Tories call for 'Champagne Jack' inquiry - 18/01/99 Has Jack Cunningham been indulging in high-living at the tax-payers' expense?
Straw criticised for 'contempt' of Commons - 19/05/99
Straw denies information bill 'retreat' - 24/05/99
Straw confirms asylum concessions - 09/06/99
Straw denies information bill 'betrayal' - 22/06/99
Straw admits terror blunder 23/06/99 Sections of the Prevention of Terrorism Act have not been in force for more than a year, Home Secretary Jack Straw has admitted
Trouble at Home - 23/06/99 previous Home Office embarrassments during Jack Straw's tenure
Straw attacks civil rights groups - 14/09/99
Straw slammed for failing Lawrence inquiry - 23/09/99 he been accused of failing to follow up "zero tolerance" pledges
Tony Blair's speech in full 28/09/99
No minimum wage for Labour workers - 29/09/99
Jack Straw speech in full - 30/09/99 Labour Party Conference
5000 Extra police to fight crime - 01/10/99 not really - see below
Hague attacks 'Labour hypocrites' - 07/10/99 accusing the prime minister of lying and breaking his promises
Straw says crime is down - 12/10/99
Straw could expand curfew laws - 14/10/99
Straw: I told the whole truth - 18/10/99 Jack Straw has insisted he did not mislead voters or the police when he promised an extra 5,000 recruits at Labour's conference
Straw 'rumbled' on police numbers - 21/10/99 his pledge to recruit 5,000 more police has been "rumbled" after official figures revealed that more officers than that are being lost every year
Straw unveils information bill - 22/10/99
Inequality grows in Blair's Britain, report shows - 25/10/99
Blair rules out 'anti-Catholic' law reform - 29/10/99
Blair woos business leaders - 02/11/99
Blair plays down hunt rumours - 03/11/99
UK arms exports under scrutiny - 03/11/99
Straw on trial over jury reform - 19/11/99
English 'victims of discrimination' - 10/01/00
No ticket, so Cherie falls foul of the law - 11/01/00
Straw's long road from student activist - 13/01/00 during those 34 years, he has undergone the sort of political transformation that has marked the careers of so many Labour politicians
Government broke EU law, says PM's wife - 19/01/00
Blair's father buys private healthcare - 23/01/00
Mirror editor in shares controversy - 02/02/00
Ethical foreign policy row - 11/02/00
Cook warns Haider on human rights - 14/02/00
Criticism over 10p wage rise - 15/02/00
Above-inflation pay boost for MPs - 15/02/00
£100,000 for new Dome chief - 28/02/00
Inquiry blames Cook for police tactics during China protests - 05/03/00
Jiang police 'were told to get tough' - 05/03/00
FO denies ordering China crackdown - 05/03/00
Nanny book battle goes to court - 06/03/00
Straw unmoved by Commons rebellion - 08/03/00
Straw hit by revolt on jury curbs - 08/03/00
Britain drops China rights protest at UN - 17/03/00
Ministers use 3 jets to fly to EU summit (headline changed to Blair's spokesman attacks BBC) - 23/03/00 from two Jags to three jets
Councils to lose homes in shake-up - 31/03/00
Blair is attacked over 'cash for coronets' - 01/04/00
Blair under fire over Putin visit - 17/04/00
Dewar denies jumping NHS waiting list - 01/05/00
China protest policing 'unlawful' - 03/05/00
Met admits tactics at Tibet rally were illegal - 04/05/00
Labour denies police interference - 04/05/00
The terror of Sierra Leone - 14/05/00
No paternity leave for Blair; Mrs Blair sues Government - 15/05/00
Labour is guilty of institutional racism, says minister - 22/05/00
The forces of desperation - 29/05/00
Blunkett urges families to take place of State - 04/06/00 more policies pinched from the Tories
World of commerce trawled for NHS chief - 09/06/00 On offer is best paid job in government at £200,000 a year
Labour 'will ignore' opponents on homes - 11/06/00
No 10 cuts up rough over pupils' picture of baby Leo - 02/07/00 'Snatched' photograph of Blair newborn sparks furious protest from Downing Street
'Junket Jack' [Cunningham] goes to the races for £40,000 - 02/07/00 Former agriculture minister and cabinet 'enforcer' lands plum job as adviser to greyhound racing industry
Blairs defy critics with Tuscan break - 02/07/00 Prime minister ignores criticism of free holidays with retreat to France and Italy
Cook accused of gagging visitor to appease China - 02/07/00 Former president of Taiwan [Lee Teng-hui] allegedly silenced by foreign secretary
Blair son arrested and gives false name - 06/07/00
Blair's son 'drunk and incapable' - 06/07/00
10 Downing Street Lobby Briefing - 06/07/00
Blair: 'Being a parent is tougher than being PM' - 07/07/00
Blair laments son's arrest for being drunk - 07/07/00
How a night of celebration led to police cells - 07/07/00
Good Samaritan found Euan Blair face down on pavement - 07/07/00
Poet to whom Blair turned in moment of strife - 07/07/00
Privacy, the press and the Prime Minister's son - 07/07/00
Blairs to face police with Euan - 07/07/00
Papers side with Euan - 07/07/00
Blairs' head in alcohol attack - 09/07/00 Euan Blair's school headmaster blames parents for teenage drinking and failure to counter Britain's 'entrenched alcohol culture'
Tony Blair describes Royal Family as Britain's rock of stability - 12/07/00
MPs' anger over Turkish dam - 12/07/00 MPs said they were "astonished" that the government had failed to consider the human rights implications of the dam
Britain defies protest over 'dam havoc' - 13/07/00 MPs and campaigners yesterday scorned ministers who claim to operate an "ethical foreign policy" yet back the Ilisu dam project, which would cause environmental havoc and could lead to a war
BBC challenged by MPs over Birt's £800,000 - 14/07/00 Parliamentary committee criticises broadcaster for size of former Director-General's salary package
Revealed: Britain [Wilson] took £5m 'bribe' to evict [Diego Garcia] islanders - 15/07/00
Expelled islanders seek right to return - 15/07/00 Hearing will decide between inhabitants of Chagos Islands [inc. Diego Garcia] and United States military
Straw's 'castle' to cost £275m - 16/07/00 Ministers agog after Home Office approves construction of new London headquarters
Britain plans Algerian arms deal despite ethical policy - 16/07/00 Government considers £5m military equipment sale to country with record of atrocities committed by its soldiers
Upwardly mobile Labour gives its MPs panoramic views - 16/07/00
Indonesia uses British arms in Spice Islands - 18/07/00
Britain 'lied to evict islanders for US base' - 18/07/00 More than 2,000 Indian Ocean people permanently banished from homes and dumped 1,200 miles away, court told
Labour accused over human rights - 20/07/00
Mandelson urged to return pay-off - 25/07/00
Chequers servant bill soars as Blair plays lord of the manor - 06/08/00 As Mr Blair flew off on another free holiday in Italy and France yesterday, Downing Street confirmed that he spent £364,319 of taxpayers' money on cooks and stewards last year
Mass for Leo as Blairs start their Tuscan holiday - 07/08/00
£100,000 pay is pathetic, complains [Labour!] MP - 17/08/00
Euan allegations anger Blair - 19/08/00
Blairs in fresh paper row - 19/08/00
Caught out, as Blairs just grin and bear it - 21/08/00
Labour to invite 100,000 foreigners a year into UK - 03/09/00 see story below!!!
Gurkha veterans denied right to work in Britain as lorry drivers - 03/09/00
Labour MPs uneasy over Bupa care on the NHS - 01/11/00
Cherie Blair wins privacy order on'blackmail' writer - 14/11/00 the Blairs had an "alarming disregard" for parental control
Rebels defeated over air sell-off - 15/11/00
Conference culture clash - 29/11/00
Bush's victory greeted by Blair - 14/12/00 "It was a long and agonising wait for you. I'm very glad it is finally settled."
[Robin] Cook hails [Colin] Powell as 'good friend' - 16/12/00
Labour won't name new £2m donor - 31/12/00 Labour has bypassed its own "anti-sleaze" laws by banking a £2 million donation from a mystery backer
Sack for ticket inspector who fined Cherie Blair £10 - 31/12/00
Blair faces revolt over £2m gift - 02/01/01
Labour's mystery £2m donor named - 02/01/01 Lord Hamlyn, publisher
Hamlyn spares Blair's blushes over £2m gift - 03/01/01
How Blair wooed and won the £1m donors - 03/01/01
Labour reveals more £2m donors - 05/01/01
Animal lab fears blamed on Blair - 17/01/01 Labour Party withdrew the small shareholding of its pension fund in Huntingdon only days after they were contacted by the Political Animal Lobby, who had given them £1 million... Huntingdon carries out tests that the Government requires
MPs in line for large pay rise - 30/01/01
The price of MPs - 30/01/01
MPs attack arms sale to Morocco - 02/02/01
Labour's only true aristocrat flees spotlight - 16/02/01 Baroness Jay of Paddington, Jim Callaghan's daughter
McQueen gives Blair dressing down - 17/02/01 designer Alexander McQueen, leading light of the Cool Britannia movement, turned on New Labour last night by accusing Downing Street of hypocrisy in using the fashion industry as a publicity tool while failing to help young designers
Ministers take royal flight out of traffic chaos - 18/02/01 Ministry of defence figures show Labour using Queen's jets more than twice as often as Tory predecessors... When Blair took office he warned Labour MPs that they were "not here to enjoy the trappings of power but to do a job and uphold the highest standards in public life"
Tories call for probe into claims over Cook - 11/03/01
Foreign Office denies Cook lied over arms-to-Sierra Leone investigation - 12/03/01
'Scotland is open' minister takes a break in Italy - 12/04/01
Scottish Minister for Tourism in foreign holiday row - 12/04/01
Minister from Italy: I've done more than anyone - 13/04/01
I'm sorry, says minister after Italian break - 14/04/01
Ministers double advert spend - 25/04/01 In 1991, Labour criticised the Tory government for what it called "Tory propaganda at the taxpayers' expense".
Taxpayer 'footing Labour propaganda bill' - 26/04/01 in 1988, Tony Blair was highly critical of spending on advertising by the Tory government... In power, Labour has significantly increased the Whitehall advertising budget. Oops: Ian McCartney, the Cabinet Office minister, confirmed that the advertising campaigns were intended to to portray the Government in a favourable light!!!
Cook held talks with war crime suspect - 29/04/01 The "ethical dimension" of Robin Cook's foreign policy has come under renewed attack
Straw bans NF march through Oldham - 04/05/01
Here beginneth Blair's crusade - 09/05/01 Mr Blair had chosen one of the schools that his former Cabinet colleague, Harriet Harman, had rejected for her children
Surely, children of the future will be adults - 09/05/01 The Prime Minister announced the election before the massed pupils of a south London comprehensive school. Comprehensive schools are important to New Labour politicians. They go to great lengths not to send their children to them
Like Kinnock in Sheffield, Blair has betrayed himself - 10/05/01 everything about the performance was in bad faith and worse taste - "I stand before you today with a sense both of humility and hope" - but everything about the event implied the opposite
Motorist's challenge over Straw's driver fails - 11/05/01
Voting Labour is a luxury that not everybody can afford - 12/05/01 who should vote Labour...
St Helens is hardly home from home for Shaun Woodward - 12/05/01 even his former allies on the Conservative Left believe that the prospect of becoming a minister provided his main motivation
Can a southern Tory sinner be Labour's northern saint? [Woodward] - 12/05/01 "I wouldn't vote for him. He's got money, so he's not normal for around here. He's not got our interests at heart. He doesn't know what people around here are like. Why should he? He's got his big house in the South and people to wait on him. Let him stay there." ... so why vote for New Labour at all?
Health 'factories' to rescue NHS - 15/05/01 Criticism of the privatisation of core NHS treatment is likely to come from within Labour's own ranks, especially as the scheme matches Tory plans. Labour's 1992 election campaign was built around accusations that the Tories were planning to privatise the NHS (they weren't)
Pity the poor Labour voters of St Helens - 16/05/01 THE last time I wrote about Shaun Woodward in this column, I described him as "an unprincipled creep on the make". As most people agreed, this was a very fair assessment of the man. Mr Blair knows that Mr Woodward would never have been picked to fight this safe Labour seat if the St Helens CLP had been given a free choice. So he stitched the selection up for him
Blair signals more private state schools - 23/05/01
Blair's 1982 election leaflet: "Above all, the EEC takes away Britain's freedom to follow the economic policies we need"
Chancellor says it all on Ladies' Day - 26/05/01 journalists noticed how women had become a "token" presence at Labour's morning press conferences, their role being generally to read out a prepared statement, then keep quiet while the men answered questions
Blair film gets personal - 27/05/01 a "nauseatingly hypocritical vanity film"
Blair sparks pay row - 12/06/01 Tony Blair's decision to award himself a £50,000 pay rise three days after winning an election landslide will be seen by many as a severe misjudgement
Blair under fire over pay - 12/06/01 Even the pro-Blair Mirror newspaper criticised Mr Blair's 40% pay rise
Prime ministerial perks - 12/06/01
We will not tolerate racism, except in Zimbabwe - 12/08/01 Mr Straw might argue that he is simply continuing the hands-off policy of Robin Cook, the preposterous, posturing poltroon he succeeded in June. That is no excuse
Grandiose follies that lay old ways to waste - 12/08/01 Tessa Jowell, Culture Secretary, seems to have had a reversal of opinion
Anger at Whitehall pay leap - 30/08/01 teachers, nurses and other public workers dismayed over plans to give pay rises of up to 50% to Whitehall's leading civil servants
Blair's lucky break - 30/08/01 Blair has already been dubbed "Lo Scroccone" ("The Scrounger") by the Italian press after he stayed in a Tuscan villa paid for by the state... the decision to holiday in Cornwall came only after Downing Street minions had phoned around seeking discounts from Cornish hotels
Blairs Bargain Break Blag: Foot And Mouth 'Stunt' Attacked - 30/08/01 Tony Blair's attempt to show his solidarity with the tourism industry has backfired - after he tried to undercut the very people he was supposed to be helping
Blairs demand a bargain break 30/08/01
New Labour: out with the red rose and in with the Big Mac - 30/08/01 Blair is to attend a £15,000 reception at the party's annual conference paid for by the burger chain McDonald's... who are anxious to receive the implied endorsement of Mr Blair and other ministers
McDonald's Labour deal sparks row - 30/08/01 McDonald's has in effect bought the prime minister's presence
Court of King Tony takes centre stage at Peter Brook's Hamlet - 08/09/01 a night of champagne socialism... no one was rude enough to glance at the Prime Minister when Hamlet spoke his concerns about "the insolence of office"
Times Letters - 13/09/01 including, from Mr Robert Wilkin: "Sir, Is today's Tony Blair, who is committed to stand firm against terrorism, the same Tony Blair who yesterday let every convicted bomber in Northern Ireland go free?"
Blair to demand action against fundamentalists - 13/09/01 he is "worried that fundamentalist groups are allowed to operate freely in some countries" - like Britain!
Trimble attacks contradiction of Blair's 'inducements' to IRA - 24/09/01
Even America thinks the IRA are terrorists, so why doesn't Blair? - 24/09/01
Double standards on terror - 26/09/01
Terror groups hiding in the heart of Britain - 28/09/01 India, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Israel, France, Algeria, Peru, Yemen and Russia have lodged protests about the presence in Britain of terrorist organisations. Mr Straw said it was not his fault that Britain had become the headquarters for Islamist movements; it was the fault of Parliament
Anger over £.5m bill for Blair's aides - 01/10/01
Blair 'will quit' so Cherie can become a judge - 01/10/01
Whatever the Left says, there's no excuse for terrorism - 02/10/01 tackling the "root causes" of terrorism, as the Guardian puts it, actually means embracing the terrorists' agenda
Straw says no room for negotiation with terrorists - 02/10/01 just as well, considering his negotiating skills. So why do they talk to the IRA?
Treat the IRA like bin Laden - 04/10/01 say 80% of British people
Sometimes I could chuck it all in, says Cherie Blair - 04/10/01
Blunkett delay in handing over terrorist angers French - 10/10/01 The case has caused uproar in France, whose press have accused Tony Blair of hypocrisy
Blair tells troops: We must fight or let the extremists determine our fate - 11/10/01 i.e. the opposite of his Northern Ireland policy!
Jo Moore was only following orders - 14/10/01 by Charlie Whelan
Spin, Whips and a tasteless hack - 31/10/01
What has become of the British patriot? - 31/10/01 When one considers how much harm Blair has done to our sense of nationhood and to the institutions that embody the nation - monarchy, Parliament, the Armed Forces, the police - his present appeals to "moral fibre" sound a little hollow
Blair's Minister of patriotism bows to Brussels rules - 15/12/01
Blair Force One faces Brown veto - 15/02/02
New Blair Force One will cost £250,000 a month _ before fuel - 17/02/02
An embarrasment of riches - 18/02/02 why are Labour MPs so susceptible to housing scandals?
Blair woos public service workers - 07/03/02 while preparing to renege on promises to improve workers' rights!
Woodhead blames 'Two-faced' Blair and his professors for the state of state education - 08/03/02
MPs reap pension rewards while others suffer - 09/03/02
Rory Bremner: When I play Tony, I see what has gone wrong - 10/03/02 Before our eyes, New Labour is disintegrating under the weight of its own contradictions
Call for inquiry into 'cruelty' at Labour peer's farm - 18/03/02
Speaker should shut up - 20/03/02 Sketchwriters do not satirise his plebeian origins, but his pettiness, petulance and pomposity
why Bush and Blair are buddies - 08/04/02
Casual incompetence or deliberate concealment? - 11/04/02 As Stephen Byers sauntered into Westminster Abbey in his lounge suit for the Queen Mother's funeral, one of his officials was burying bad news away from media attention
Mr Blair and his Cabinet did not bother to wear morning dress for the Queen Mother's funeral. But one can't help noticing that when the Prime Minister goes to India he puts on a smart Nehru jacket
Blair: France will reject extremism - 22/04/02
Why Blair and Jospin never became friends - 23/04/02 The Jospins live an abstemious life far removed from the jet-setting glamour championed by the Blairs
The paper on sale in London that wants all Jews killed - 09/05/02 incitement to racial hatred is supposedly illegal in Britain, but Arabs get away with it
Milburn's radical days - 13/05/02 How Milburn turned his back on the lefty pals who helped his early career
Beckett's husband prepares to join 'world class junket' to Bali - 20/05/02
Labour dogged by hypocrisy - 24/05/02
'Get Carter' murder case man fights on - 29/05/02 in opposition Jack Straw supported me, but as soon as he came into power it didn't suit his political goals to continue to support me
Boateng is first black Cabinet minister - 30/05/02 He has risked offending old allies on the Left by sending his children to private school
Close shave that ensured success - 30/05/02 Alistair Darling provoked controversy several years ago when he moved to the leafy Grange suburb so that his children could attend one of Edinburgh's best schools
Minister slams Desmond's donation - 31/05/02 Tessa Jowell believes that Labour had undermined its position on gender equality by accepting money from a porn magazine publisher
Harman joins Desmond attack - 12/06/02 Blair is facing a growing backlash from Labour women for accepting a donation from Richard Desmond, publisher of several pornographic magazines
Adviser's move to lobby firm attacked - 12/06/02
Blair defends MoD man's PR role - 13/06/02
It's his funeral - 14/06/02 What manner of man is it who tries to rush out in front of the head of state and her grieving family so that the nation can see how much he, too, feels their pain? - When in reality he wants to scrap them?
Top Labour official uses offshore trust tax shelter - 16/06/02 David Triesman, a former communist who was appointed Labour's general secretary last year, lives in a £1m house
Ascension islanders ready to revolt for democracy - 15/06/02 We the undersigned deplore the introduction of taxation without representation on Ascension The revolt is particularly awkward for the Government, which has lauded the innate virtues of democracy and self-determination. The islanders cannot vote
Israel's fair-weather friend - 20/06/02
Blair unplugged gets carried away with himself - 21/06/02
'Hypocrisy' of Labour over Tory son at Eton - 27/06/02
No 10 denies £850,000 Blair flat makeover claims - 01/07/02
Blair children 'given private tuition' - 04/07/02 !!!!!!!!!!
Cook attacked in Blair 'tutor' row - 04/07/02
The Blairs go private for sons' tuition - 05/07/02
Prescott enters private tutors row - 05/07/02
Blair's real hypocrisy - 05/07/02 Robin Cook publicly rebuked Iain Duncan Smith for sending one of his sons to Eton. Mr Blair uttered not a squeak of protest - even though, we now discover, his own children were being tutored on the quiet
He could not be in better hands - 05/07/02 It would be difficult to find better tutors in Britain than the Westminster teachers who are taking the short walk from the school to Downing Street to teach Euan Blair
Don't boost your pension at our cost, MPs warned - 06/07/02
If only the PM cared so much for all our children - 07/07/02
UK arms exports policy 'hypocritical' - 07/07/02
Britain sells defence parts to Israel - 09/02/02
Tributes for pensioners' friend Barbara Castle - 10/07/02 Old rivals from the Labour Party laid claim yesterday to the memory of Barbara Castle, even though she despised them
Labour forces through rise in MPs' pensions - 21/07/02 Labour whips are using "bullyboy tactics" to force through plans to increase MPs' pensions by more than 20%
MPs vote themselves pension rise - 23/07/02
Blair's dashing diplomacy runs up £1.7m travel bill - 26/07/02
Blair tops EU leaders' pay table on £171,000 - 06/08/02
Blair's ageism - 06/08/02
'Pay-their-way' Blairs stay at tobacco chief's chateau - 13/08/02 owned by the head of an international luxury goods firm that has links to the tobacco industry. Labour pledged in its 1997 election manifesto to ban all advertising and promotion of tobacco
Ancram condemns Labour's Zimbabwe 'failure' - 14/08/02
Mother of Omagh victim criticises unanswered letter to Blair - 16/08/02 He failed to acknowledge an invitation to the fourth anniversary of the Omagh bombing... 'Considering how we have been treated in the last four years it doesn't come as a great surprise'
Ministers reject Mugabe snub calls - 23/08/02
Blair aide sends son to fee-paying school - 02/10/02
Not criminal but immoral, say the public - 13/12/02 many clearly regard Cherie as a hypocrite
No 10 adds to global warming - 13/12/02
Asylum 'white list' extended - 07/02/03 the system is similar to that denounced as "racialist" by Labour in opposition!
Fury over Irvine's £22,000 pay rise - 08/02/03 as teachers, the Armed Forces and civil servants were told they would get rises of around 2.9%
Revolt threat over Irvine pay rise - 08/02/03
Harman banned for speeding - 11/02/03 The solicitor general's role is as deputy chief legal adviser to the government. "Ms" Harman also superintends the Crown Prosecution Service
Salaries of NHS bosses soar - 11/02/03 Remember Labour's attitude to this when they were in opposition?!
Britain is 'still important support base' for al-Qa'eda - 20/05/03
Amos ditches Clare Short report at cost of £29,000 - 20/05/03
The Prime Minister, the tobacco baron, the holiday chateau, and the mystery of the missing DTI report - 25/05/03
Holiday reading: the playboys and business titans who make up the exclusive Club Blair - 25/05/03
Cherie Blair attacks Rome over status of women - 19/06/03 now the Blairs are telling the Pope what to do!
Anti-hunt fanatics - 28/06/03 Blair wants to be seen as hostile to hunting, without losing the rural vote
Labour hypocrisy row as MP picks private school - 28/10/03
Abbott's double standards - 28/10/03
Abbott's son defends going private - 28/10/03 Ms Abbott once criticised Labour colleague Ms Harman, for sending her son to a selective school. Ms Abbott said: "She made the Labour Party look as if we do one thing and say another." She also criticised the prime minister for sending his eldest son Euan to a selective school. Now she has done it herself!
Abbott speaks out on school row - 31/10/03
Abbott says son's school decision is indefensible - 01/11/03
Abbott admits job at risk - 02/11/03
Abuse victim 'may sue minister' - 12/11/03 Labour's Minister for Children, Margaret Hodge, has tried to defend her failure to act on reports of child abuse by dismissing the victim as "an extremely disturbed person"
Hodge apologises to abuse victim - 14/11/03 but only after a senior Tory MP called for her to be sacked
Full text of Hodge's letter - 14/11/03
Hodge row prompts Commons clash - 19/11/03 Blair more concerned about vulnerable ministers than vulnerable children
'Mr Blair... have you met President Kerry?' - 05/03/04 what does Tony Blair have against John Kerry?
Call to open up private schools - 08/03/04 Tony Blair has been described by a private school headmaster as "a public school toff" who had manipulated the education system to his own family's advantage
Blair goes to Madrid for funeral - 23/03/04 still gatecrashing the funerals of people who died because of him
Blair to meet Lockerbie families - 31/03/04 after shaking hands with the victims' murderer
The US trip dangers for Blair - 14/04/04
Blair defends human rights record - 10/05/04
Recalled Uzbek envoy speaks out - 15/10/04 Ethical Foreign Policy?
Sympathies over UK soldier deaths - 04/11/04 their blood is on Blair's hands
Blair tribute to Black Watch dead - 05/11/04 the ultimate insult
Guantanamo Britons are still a threat, says Blair - 14/11/04
Tony Blair faces his accusers at Ken Bigley's memorial service - 14/11/04
Have Tony and Cherie made a £3.6m property blunder? - 08/01/05
Britain sells out for the sake of China's market - 15/01/05 Where is New Labour's "Ethical Foreign Policy" now?
Manchester wins Labour conference - 16/01/05 Blackpool too working class for New Labour
Blair moves to woo Jewish voters - 18/02/05 Mr Blair distanced himself from recent Labour campaign posters featuring Mr Howard, which critics claimed were anti-Semitic
Discrimination bill snubs gays to save Muslim vote - 27/02/05
Tebbit attacks Blair over terror - 13/03/05 Considering Blair is the man who let out of prison a whole battalion of murderers, including the man that crippled my wife, that nearly killed me and murdered my friends, I find it difficult to take his claims seriously. I feel a sensation of nausea that a man so detached from reality and truth could be the prime minister of this country
Blair betrays the Crown as well as the country - 10/04/05 The papacy stands for autocratic and hierarchical principles and attachments to ancient dogmas that are alien to the British state
Hypocrisy at the heart of Labour's education policy - 28/04/05
Howard mocks Blair's priorities - 17/05/05
Cherie Blair must be reined in over media events, say Tories - 30/05/05 Mrs Blair, who earns an estimated £250,000 as a human rights lawyer, uses her position as the Prime Minister's wife to boost the family bank balance and help pay for their expanding property portfolio
Banks changes name for Lords life - 23/06/05
Blairs' Red Sea holiday costs taxpayer £30,000 - 22/07/05
Blair leads tributes to Mo Mowlam - 19/08/05
Peter Mandelson named "protectionist of the month" - 26/08/05
Minister found guilty of sex bias - 12/10/05 Patricia Hewitt
'A lifetime of feeling breathless' - 02/01/06 patient denied the simple heart treatment which fixed Tony Blair
"Lord" Kinnock calls for the UK's roads to be signed in metres by the time of the Olympics - 26/02/06 For a chap who spent years campaigning for the abolition of the House of Lords and was elected to Parliament by calling for Britain to pull out of "Europe", Neil Kinnock hasn't done badly. He is now a lord himself and, as a former European Commission vice-president, enjoys a pension of £75,000 a year - one condition of which is that he must promote "European integration"
Blair laughs off 'traitor' claims - 16/03/06
Taxpayer top-up for MPs' pension fund - 30/03/06
Labour defends Cherie's hair bill - 20/04/06 Mrs Blair's hairstyling cost £275 per day for the month leading up to the election
'Bad timing' for Prescott leaflet - 28/04/06
Ruth Kelly exposed as champion Nimby - 11/05/06
Johnson aided private placement - 24/07/06
Cherie to be granted city freedom - 24/07/06
Step up extremism fight - Kelly - 14/08/06 she didn't mention Opus Dei
A fortune for the family at Number 10 - 20/08/06
Prime Minister fails to confront Putin - 21/10/06
Labour's greatest skill is passing the buck - 09/12/06 "it is not that we need to dispense with multi-cultural Britain. On the contrary, we should continue celebrating it" - and by the way, don't be too blatant about celebrating Christmas
Cause to celebrate Sir Laurens's birthday - 17/12/06 Glenys Kinnock who, on a high-profile visit to the Kalahari, treated the evicted bushmen with toe-curling condescension
Resigned twice, salary halved but Blunkett rakes in £600,000 - 24/12/06
Blair accused of 'cheapening' office of PM - 28/12/06
Robin the rich leaves Blair feeling the heat - 29/12/06 Blair on yet another freebie holiday
Minister defends hospital protest - 29/12/06 "Ms" Hazel Blears, Labour chairwoman, has directly opposed government policy by taking part in a protest over plans to close part of a hospital in her constituency
Labour 'hypocrisy over NHS cuts' - 29/12/06
Blair defends Kelly over school - 08/01/07
Hypocrisy that goes to the heart of Labour's failure - 09/01/07
Right school, wrong job, Miss Kelly - 09/01/07 actually, this androgenous psychopath is a "Ms"
Cabinet and media on standby as newspapers were warned not to identify minister - 09/01/07 Opus Dei monster tries to manipulate the media like Mandelson, the other "spinopath"
Hostile ministers chip away at private sector funds and status - 09/01/07
What Labour MPs said, and what they did - 09/01/07
Brown 'schizophrenic' over Union - 14/01/07
We want a true Brit, not Brown's 'Britishness' - 14/01/07
So, that's one happy parent - 14/01/07 Former Education Secretary Ruth Kelly has bought her way out of the state system, and no wonder: the past week has laid bare the surreal, ever-changing world of targets, tables and tests created by Labour
Blairs' 'greedy Britain' attacked - 17/01/07
World Cup own goal for chancellor - 19/01/07 he provoked a storm by appearing to back England to host and win the football World Cup in 2018 - and not his native Scotland
Tories ask how Tony Blair can afford 5th home - 04/02/07 no wonder he can't stop grinning
Blair's wealth gap: voters want City bonus curb - 18/02/07 One MP, Ian Gibson, accused the Prime Minister and other senior figures of being "very sympathetic to the rich. They have their holidays with them, they are envious of them"
Blair talks with Pope in Vatican - 23/06/07
Tony Blair joins Catholic Church - 22/12/07 He was too ashamed to admit he was a catholic when he was PM, even though he was a more successful traitor than Guy Fawkes


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