This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago ...

LONDON: Newly-declassified UK government documents published on Tuesday reveal the frustrations of then-prime minister Tony Blair and his government with French leader Jaques Chirac for blocking ...

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 ...

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's Labour government pressed ahead with unrestricted migration from eastern Europe despite mounting concerns among senior ministers, according to newly-released official files.

Tony Blair’s government pressed ahead with an open borders policy for new EU countries in 2004 despite ministers urging him to re-think the policy, newly released files have revealed. In 2004, the ...

Although Tony Blair had trumpeted the opening ceremony of the Dome would be 'the greatest show on earth', the Queen was clearly out of her comfort zone. Blair's chief Press Secretary, Alastair ...

A landmark speech by Rhodri Morgan setting out his political vision for Wales was privately dismissed as "dreadful nonsense" by Tony Blair when he was prime minister. In a lecture in 2002 ...

Tony Blair’s ministers were advised to use Post-it notes for sensitive messages to avoid having to release them under new Freedom of Information (FoI) laws. The Labour government had originally ...

EX-PM Tony Blair today stands accused of ­“wilfully forcing” mass immigration on Britain. He pressed ahead with plans to grant unrestricted access to hundreds of thousands of migrants ...

Tony Blair threw open Britain’s borders to millions of migrants to inflate economic figures, shocking Government records have revealed. The former Prime Minister in 2004 granted eastern ...