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NewsYahoo News UKTony Blair: Mass testing of population for COVID-19 essential to prevent second lockdown
The former prime minister said only testing people with symptoms was not enough.
NewsYahoo News UKTony Blair: Boris Johnson is making it difficult for the country to get out of lockdown
Tony Blair said the government should adopt a policy of mass testing to make it easier to come out of lockdown and prevent future coronavirus outbreaks.
NewsYahoo News UKCoronavirus: Tony Blair says government is 'overwhelmed' by crisis and calls for mass testing
He said exiting the lockdown would be more difficult than the 'suppression' phase.
NewsYahoo News UKTony Blair says UK was too 'slow' in suppressing coronavirus outbreak
The former Labour leader said Britain was 'slow' in trying to suppress the COVID-19 outbreak compared with other countries.
PoliticsYahoo News UKJust 22% of Brits think Tony Blair was good for Labour
Despite being the only Labour leader to win a general election since 1974...
PoliticsYahoo News UKI would have stopped Brexit and united the country, Tony Blair claims
The former PM said Brexit could have been prevented if Labour had been a 'serious opposition' under Jeremy Corbyn.
PoliticsYahoo News UKTony Blair accused of seeking EU funding while campaigning for second referendum
Mr Blair reportedly applied for funding for the Tony Blair Institute from EU member states.
PoliticsYahoo News UKJeremy Corbyn attacked by Labour MPs as Tony Blair warns against election defeat ‘whitewash’
Labour is facing an 'existential crisis', according to Mr Blair.
PoliticsYahoo News UKTony Blair calls Tory Brexit promise a ‘fantasy’ and says Labour majority a ‘risk’
The former prime minister criticised both leading parties in the run-up to next month's general election.
PoliticsYahoo News UKTony Blair says Brexit has put Scottish independence back on the table
Speaking to a Reuters Newsmakers event on Monday morning, Mr Blair said: “I don’t think campaigning for an independent Scotland is extreme. I just don’t agree with it."
PoliticsYahoo News UKTony Blair: 'I'd vote for Jeremy Corbyn to stop Brexit'
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair is willing to vote for Jeremy Corbyn in order to prevent the UK crashing out the EU without a deal.
EntertainmentYahoo News UKFrom Churchill to May: The 13 prime ministers who've served during the Queen’s reign
The Queen has outlasted 13 prime ministers - and she is about to get a 14th.
PoliticsYahoo News UKTony Blair: Britain will be a 'serious country' again after Brexit
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair refused to comment on whether Theresa May should resign as Prime Minister.
PoliticsYahoo News UKTony Blair says there is no point praying to God to solve the Brexit chaos
The former PM doesn't think God can save the day.
PoliticsYahoo News UKTony Blair ‘secretly advising French president Emmanuel Macron to keep Britain in the EU’
The former Labour prime minister has been talking to the French president about Brexit, it has been reported.
PoliticsYahoo News UKTony Blair joins calls to delay Brexit, saying an extension to Article 50 is 'inevitable'
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair told BBC Radio 4 that the government should be talking to the EU about an extension to Article 50.
PoliticsYahoo News UKNational Archives files reveal that 1994 Government advisors didn't think email would catch on
Files released by the National Archives show that in the 90s, Downing Street advisors didn't think email would catch on.
PoliticsYahoo News UKTony Blair: Britain will need Article 50 extension for more Brexit negotiations or a second referendum
Tony Blair will say that Europe should prepare itself for the 'probability' that Britain will need an extension to Article 50 - either to renegotiate or have a second referendum.
EntertainmentYahoo News UKKing Charles 'would have done more' to stop Iraq war than the Queen
Royal Correspondent and author Robert Jobson speaks to The Royal Box.
PoliticsYahoo News UKTony Blair blasts Jeremy Corbyn as he says it is ‘gut-wrenching' that Labour isn't calling for second Brexit vote
The former Prime Minister has repeated his calls for a second referendum.
PoliticsYahoo News UKLabour Party may be 'lost' to moderates forever, warns Tony Blair
Former Labour leader Tony Blair tells Nick Robinson that the party have been 'lost' forever to left-wingers
PoliticsYahoo News UKTony Blair warns that future comparisons to Nazi Germany may not be far fetched
The former Prime Minister will today say that he has never been so worried about the future of the UK - as well as offering stark advice for Donald Trump.
NewsYahoo News UKTony Blair has won a prestigious award for democracy - which some people think is a bit ironic
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has become the first British recipient of the Lincoln Leadership Prize.
NewsYahoo News UKTony Blair is becoming less popular after voicing his views on Brexit
The former Labour prime minister's popularity has fallen, a poll says.
NewsYahoo News UKTony Blair is 'sickened' at Brexiteers threatening peace in Northern Ireland
The former Prime Minister condemned the way in which Brexit could potentially result in a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
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