'If Britain cannot honour a 10-year prime minister, the only leader to have won an election for Labour in almost half a century, then who among the top ranks of public service can we honour?' | Writes NJ_Timothy
Tony Blair was, in David Cameron’s famous line, “the future once”. Yet for a man written off as a relic more than 16 years ago, Labour’s last prime minister still looms large in British public life.
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