Out with the old: is neoliberalism really dying?
Despite our age of economic crisis, populism and pandemic, we may be living in the ruins of the neoliberal order…
ByTony Blair
Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair KG, better known as Tony Blair, is a British politician. He was the prime minister of the United Kingdom between 1997 and 2007 and the leader of the Labour Party between 1994 and 1997. During his leadership, Blair is known for rebranding the Labour Party as ‘New Labour’. He studied at Fettes College and then studied law at St. John’s College at the University of Oxford. Find all our latest news, comment and analysis on the former prime minister here.
Tony Blair’s new centrist project shows he and his acolytes have learnt nothing
The former prime minister and his fellow liberals offer only the defunct slogans of a previous age.
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Keir Starmer has Tony Blair’s backing, now he needs some ideas
The party hasn’t yet given the public, as a shadow cabinet minister says, “a reason to vote for us”.
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Tony Blair is right: more people should go on to higher education
Rather than trying to limit the number who enter university, we should focus on making it more effective.
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Exclusive: Tony Blair wants to advise the next Labour government
The former prime minister hopes to return to British politics to “help on the policy side”.
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Keir Starmer remains the Tories’ useful idiot
The Labour leader’s attack on Stop the War shows he has learned nothing from the calamities of Blairism.
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Labour used to be the party of the people – how did it become so disconnected?
Keir Starmer must find a way to cross the troubling gulf between public and political opinion.
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From the NS archive: Mr Blair and Mr Blair
23 October 2000: What the PM doesn’t have in common with George Orwell.
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Why is the left so determined to erase Tony Blair’s achievements?
A petition to have the former prime minister’s knighthood rescinded has more than half a million signatures. But his record…
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How unpopular is Tony Blair?
The former prime minister’s knighthood has gone down like a cup of cold sick with the British public.
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Does Labour really need Tony Blair’s “total change”?
The New Statesman politics team discuss the former Prime Minister's scathing intervention
Tony Blair: Without total change Labour will die
The Labour Party needs complete deconstruction and reconstruction. Nothing less will do.
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From the 1997 election archive: Dial M for Mandelson
Harriet Harman, Margaret Beckett, Jack Straw ... where did their cabinet careers start out? This overview of Tony Blair's very first appointments…
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What does Blairite really mean? That depends who you ask.
If you're befuddled by leftie political terminology, you're not alone.
ByBlair: the 9/11 argument
The 2001 attacks "changed everything". Why?
ByHow was Blair for you?
We asked David Hare, Geoff Mulgan, David Marquand, Suzanne Moore, John Gray and many more to give us
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