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May 1, 2022 · This near-universal Blair-bashing misses two important things. First, it rewrites history. It covers up the way that, 25 years ago, Blair the pariah was instead hailed as a messiah by the UK’s ...
Apr 13, 2012 · Mr Bevan sold the house to Tony and Cherie Blair in 2004 for £3.6million. How the Blairs built resentment This extraordinary photograph of the back of the Blairs' new home shows the ...
April 28, 2022 5 mins. Tony Blair is hated up and down the land but not in Islington, and not in Labour HQ. Speaking to the FT last summer, Keir Starmer embraced Blair’s legacy. “We have to be proud of that record in government,” he said, “not be arm’s length or distant about it.”. To Labour’s Right wing, Blair remains the closest ...
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- Tony Blair’s Labour Government: A Mixed Picture
- Gordon Brown’s Labour Government: Hamstrung by The Recession
- Cameron’s Conservative Government: Wary of Targets as Housebuilding Plummets
When Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair was in power (1997-2007), the national housebuilding target was 200,000 new homes a year. For the early part of Blair’s premiership, those targets weren’t met. But in 2005, the number of homes built in the UK each year finally broke that 200,000 ceiling. On average, across his ten years in office, housebuilding...
Mr Brown took office in 2007, just as the credit crunch began to hit. He upped the annual target to 240,000 homes, but as the recession took hold, housebuilding dropped off a cliff. On average, the number of new homes built under Gordon Brown was 58,116 a year below target.
For the first five years of his premiership, David Cameron avoided putting a figure on the exact number of homes he wanted to deliver each year. So for the years 2010 to 2015, we’ve used the “modest” estimate from the Home Builders Federation that at the time, the target should have been 200,000 new homes a year. On that basis, over his five full f...
Apr 13, 2012 · Mrs Blair was said to have longed for another historic home in the same area. A source said: "It ticked all of Cherie's boxes. She wanted a small stately home within a 20-mile radius of Chequers."
Oct 8, 2023 · The Blairs were accused of ‘blighting’ the estate shortly after moving in, by extending the mansion as well as adding a glass sports pavilion and tennis court. The latest planning row began in June 2021 when Lady Blair submitted the plans to add an ensuite bedroom to a former farm building.
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May 2, 2017 · Yes, they were labelled “Blair’s babes”, and many hurdles remain, but we’ve never had more women in positions of political and cultural power than we do today, some 20 years on.
