Keir Starmer backs Tony Blair as more than 500,000 want knighthood stopped

Sir Keir Starmer has said that Tony Blair was a “very successful prime minister” who deserves to be honoured after 500,000 people signed a petition to remove his knighthood

Blair’s knighthood was not a “thorny” issue despite the former prime minister’s legacy in the Middle East., the Labour leader addedThe former prime minister, who is 68, was made a Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter in the

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