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Tony Blair (Anthony Charles Lynton Blair)

Date of Birth: 6 May 1953
Place of Birth: Edinburgh


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Ukraine costs hit Whitehall aid budget

In real terms Britain's spending is now lower than it was in 1997 when Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair's government reinstated the Department for International Development (DFID) separate from the Foreign & Commonwealth Office...

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Opposition leader recruits Britain's Cherie Blair to clear his name

Alexander Cummings the leader of the opposition Alternative National Congress (ANC) is bringing in Cherie Blair the senior QC and wife of Britain's former Prime Minister Tony Blair as he seeks to prove his innocence against charges that he and several ANC colleagues forged the signatures of fellow opposition leaders when establishing an electoral pact...

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More on Air Blair

Tony Blair's secretive lightning tour of Africa in September and October included meetings with five presidents in four days Africa Confidential has now been able to confirm mostly from flight-tracking services and local media reports (AC Vol 62 No 20 High expectations of HH)...

It returned to Luton airport England on 10 October but the Tony Blair Institute for Global Governance (TBI) told Africa Confidential it did not comment on travel arrangements and so it is not known if the ex-prime minister was still on board...


High expectations of HH

A PRESIDENT A DAY FOR BLAIR'S LIGHTNING TOUR Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair made a flying visit on 29 September to meet Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema for his third meeting with an African head of state in as many days...

A Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI) spokesperson could not confirm Blair's travel arrangements to Africa Confidential for 'security reasons' and did not disclose who had paid for the jet...


Stress test for the Tonse Alliance

UK ex-prime minister Tony Blair's team which was there during Banda's regime is returning to Malawi to work with the Office of the President ' said an insider...

' The Tony Blair Institute told Africa Confidential it 'is in early stage discussions to scope support it might provide in future to the Government of President Lazarus Chakwera'...


Bridgette's border war escalates

Backing Motsepe's protestations of innocence was a monumental dossier compiled with the help of Cherie Blair QC wife of former British premier Tony Blair and the London-based business intelligence firm Alaco...


Fight in the last chance saloon

Sir Ross Cranston a retired judge and former MP and Solicitor-General under Tony Blair is set to rule 'in due course' – more likely to be days than weeks according to lawyers following proceedings – as to whether to uphold the 2017 award or to re-open the case...


Retreating from the stage

Johnson has been a long-time critic of DFID set up by Tony Blair's Labour government in 1997 and the move has been expected ever since he won the election in December...


Scotland under siege

Scotland was a Labour government minister under Tony Blair and a moderate but Conservative prime minister Boris Johnson is not a fan...


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