The Bank of England has imposed a permanent news blackout on its £50bn-plus plan to ease the credit crunch.

Ferocious and unprecedented secrecy means taxpayers will never know the names of the banks that have been supported through the special liquidity scheme, which was unveiled by Bank Governor Mervyn King last week.

Truckers in diesel price protest...

UK banks could be forced to return billions of pounds of overdraft fees to consumers after a high court judge said the fees could be challenged by the Office of Fair Trading.

FORMER British prime minister Tony Blair has been caught travelling on a train without a ticket or any cash to pay the fare.

Legislation against selling, making, hiring or importing samurai swords in England and Wales has come into force.

Gordon Brown's personal popularity ratings have plunged further and faster than any other British prime minister since polling began in the 1930s, a poll revealed on Sunday.

The hysterical idea that the presence of royalty on the battlefield would lead to hordes of fanatical fuzzy-wuzzies seeking martyrdom, thereby endangering the lives of all other troops within spitting distance of Harry, derives from a heady and ill-digested mixture of Kipling, Rider Haggard, TE Lawrence and John Buchan's 'Gordon at Khartoum'; all secured by public school infantilism.

Prince Harry's withdrawal was perhaps in belated recognition that the longer his exposure to uranium poisoning, the shorter his possible life span. Whether ten weeks exposure is enough to endanger health remains to be seen. Afghanistan is not Iraq, but in terms of radiation poisoning it is not far behind.

Britain warns terror threat is worsening...

A Jordanian man described by Britain as a "significant international terrorist" won a court appeal on Wednesday against deportation.

Abu Qatada, linked by Britain to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network, is one of a group of Middle Eastern men the government has been attempting to deport on grounds of national security, while acknowledging it does not have sufficient evidence to put them on trial.

Along with 'our economy is resilient and the fundamentals strong,' Gordon Brown has been assuring us that his government 'will continue to take whatever action is necessary to maintain economic stability.' I see in my mind's eye a cartoon in which Brown is standing on the bridge of the Titanic, and as it sinks beneath the waves, he is saying 'I will do whatever is necessary to maintain the stability of this ship.'

'UK is European center of anti-Semitism'...

Some suffered for their own ferocity. Cromwell was beheaded for high treason five years after More. The cowardly Archbishop of Canterbury was burned at the stake. The king died of syphilis. But others - like the knaves who took us to war in 2003 - got away with it. Sir Richard Riche died in his bed.

So no more Mores? I was wrong at the start of this article. I now think of the Iraq war and of a contemporary man who tried to save himself but valiantly told the truth and paid for it with his life. The martyr's name was David Kelly.

After 12 days of 24-hour detention in a cell and repeated questioning in a room with no natural light, Farrah was released without charge. No explanation was given and no apology made. She had no way of travelling home and was not offered assistance; her solicitor organised a taxi. She said she felt "tired, shocked and exhausted", and had thought she was never going to get out. Her clothes were never returned.

The 'man on the street' was recently interviewed in London... watch the following to see the results of the 'Israel Quiz'.... the ignorance and blind support of Israeli policies is what has destroyed Palestine... it's frightening.

The British government encouraged the tale that Russian President Putin had sent Andrei Lugovoi to poison Litvinenko's tea at a meeting on November 1, 2006. The story appealed to people brought up on James Bond thrillers, but the story never made any sense. Polonium 2-10 is a rare and tightly controlled substance as likely to contaminate the assassin as the victim. There are far easier and more effective ways of killing someone.

Moreover, there is no evidence to connect Russia to Litvinenko's death. But this didn't stop the British government from grandstanding, sending an extradition request for Lugovoi in July 2007. The British government sent the request despite the facts that there is no extradition treaty between Britain and Russia and the Russian constitution prohibits the extradition of Russian citizens. Epstein suggests that the purpose of the extradition request was to block the Russian government from investigating Litvinenko's death in London. Litvinenko had a false passport provided by the British government. A real investigtion might have opened up the shadowy world of security consultants in which Litvinenko rubbed shoulders with former British police and intelligence officials.

Pubs ban British treasury chief after alcohol tax hike...

Britain's Defence Ministry is to admit that its troops tortured and breached the human rights of nine Iraqi men they detained in southern Iraq in 2003, opening the way to potentially large compensation claims.

President Nicolas Sarkozy has questioned whether France and Britain could not work together to put pressure on the United States to strengthen the dollar.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown was yesterday urged to give way to mounting calls for an immediate Privy Council inquiry into the origins and conduct of the Iraq war.

LAST week, Britain's largest mortgage lender and fifth-largest bank, HBOS, came under massive speculative attack and might have collapsed in similar fashion as the Wall Street investment bank Bear Stearns but for quick action by the British financial authorities to scorch rumours that the bank was in trouble.

Anti-nuclear campaigners have reacted angrily to reports that Britain is about to sign an atomic power deal with France.

The agreement to build a new generation of power stations then export the technology around the world will reportedly be sealed next week when French president Nicolas Sarkozy visits the UK.

Thousands of campaigners will gather at the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston this Monday, on the 50th anniversary of the historic first march from London, on Easter weekend 1958. The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament expects up to 5,000 activists from across the country to 'surround the base' and join MPs, veteran campaigners and celebrities in the biggest protest at the Berkshire site in 20 years.

The British government revealed on Wednesday that it's delaying earlier plans to withdraw thousands of military troops from Iraq.

The Bank of England today pumped another £5 billion into money markets in a bid to avert a new, devastating twist to the credit crunch which has already taken a severe toll on shares.

Mr Browne wants coroners to stop accusing the MoD of "serious failings" when recording verdicts on military deaths.

The shockwaves from the collapse of the US investment bank Bear Stearns rumbled through financial markets in London yesterday as the old adage that if the US economy sneezes Britain catches a cold resurfaced anew.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown promised an inquiry into the invasion of Iraq and its aftermath to "learn all possible lessons" in a letter to a think-tank chief, The Independent reported Monday.

Brown, who has previously acknowledged that "mistakes" were made in the planning of post-war Iraq, reportedly insisted, however, that it was not the right time to hold such an inquiry as the situation there remained "fragile".

The pound fell 2 percent against the euro, the most in six years, declining to a record, after the Federal Reserve cut its discount rate and JPMorgan Chase & Co. bought Bear Stearns Cos.

Britain's currency also dropped versus the dollar and fell to a three-year low against the yen after the Fed cut the rate a quarter-percentage point to 3.25 percent in its first weekend emergency action since 1979. The U.S. central bank will also provide JPMorgan as much as $30 billion to fund the purchase of Wall Street's fifth-biggest bank, and lend to the 20 firms that buy Treasury securities directly from it.

Canadian-born Samantha Crozier, 23, has been given notice by the Home Office to leave the country by April 30, when her temporary visa expires after her application for British citizenship was refused.

British diplomats in Washington have quietly dropped the use of the phrase "special relationship" in what some see as a symbol of the drift in relations with the US under Gordon Brown.

Thousands in anti-war demonstration...

On 18 February 2008, the British Government was forced to release a draft dossier on Iraq's so-called "weapons of mass destruction" under the Freedom of Information Act. But it succeeded in persuading a Freedom of Information Tribunal to allow a handwritten reference to Israel in the margin of the document to be suppressed.

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"On page 3 of the document, I refer to the marginal references in the first paragraph to Israel. The reference to Israel is linked (by a hyphen) to a sentence which reads: 'No other country has flouted the United Nations' authority so brazenly in pursuit of weapons of mass destruction'. I interpret this note to indicate that the person who wrote it believes that Israel has flouted the United Nations authority in a manner similar to that of the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein."

The mothers of two teenage soldiers killed in Iraq accused Tony Blair's government of going to war "on a lie" as they took their fight for a public inquiry into the conflict to the House of Lords.

John McDonnell MP, Chris Coverdale: International War Law Expert and Annie Machon of the Campaign to Make War History brief MPs and the media on allegations of war crimes committed against the people of Iraq by Britain’s former Prime Minister and former Attorney General.

The pressures faced by the armed forces are driving away experienced personnel and damaging morale, MPs have warned.

It said Britain has the most congested roads, the fewest motorways and "some of the worst public transport" among leading industrialised countries.

Not having a written constitution allowed Blair and his advisers to go to war without reference to parliament or the public

The words "war on terror" will no longer be used by the British government to describe attacks on the public, the country's chief prosecutor said Dec. 27.

Sir Ken Macdonald said terrorist fanatics were not soldiers fighting a war but simply members of an aimless "death cult."

Britain’s motivation for pulling out of the region has as little to do with the long-term safety and well-being of ordinary Iraqis as when it participated in the invasion and occupation. The policy is being driven by the conclusion that, for both military and political reasons, the defeat of the popular anti-occupation insurgency is beyond its capabilities and that its forces in Iraq should concentrate on training and guarding oil supply routes. Moreover, the heads of the armed forces have been pushing for the past year to redeploy yet more troops to southern Afghanistan.

Tony Blair's personal role as prime minister in halting the Saudi arms sale bribery investigation is revealed in court documents which the Guardian is publishing in full on its website.

No one will be charged with the illegal sale of state honours as a result of a police enquiry that dogged former Prime Minister Tony Blair's last months in office, media reported on Thursday.

Details of the former prime minister's contacts with Mr Murdoch have been released under the Freedom of Information Act. After trying to block disclosure for four years, the Government backed down in a surprise change of heart the day after Mr Blair resigned last month.

As Tony Blair left Downing Street, leaving Britain 's Prime Ministership to his long time rival and co-leader of the Labour Party, Gordon Brown, the protesters outside Blair's office were greeted with the news that Blair had just been appointed as the new "Middle East Envoy" for the Quartet. (US/EU/UN/Russia)

Looking at the realities of the Middle East today and reviewing Blair's contribution to the current mayhem, one is left wondering whether this decision is born out of delusional thinking, sheer cynicism, or is there any possible constructive utility in this appointment?

Beyond satire is Blair's appointment as Middle East envoy. Blair is the most wholehearted Zionist ever to lead a major British political party - including Balfour. He is at one with the religious right in the United States in having a gut Zionism perversely engendered by fundamentalist Christian beliefs.

Just days after stepping down as Prime Minister of Britain, Tony Blair finds himself in a new position of Special Envoy to the Middle East. Already an 'expert' in the area, personally trained by George Dubya Bush himself, we have some interesting days to look forward to as he maps out his strategy to destroy Palestine the way he helped to destroy Iraq.

Blair to resign as MP tomorrow...

TONY Blair heads to Brussels today to negotiate an EU treaty which could hand over British powers to Europe.

President Bush has spoken to UK PM Tony Blair about him becoming a Mid-East envoy, a White House official says.

Sillars claims Scottish courts have the power to try Blair for war crimes if they believe an established offence, such as murder, has been committed in the process. He said he had been told by legal experts that the Prime Minister has a case to answer.

Tony Blair, the British prime minister, could end up swapping Downing Street for a job as the first full-time European Union president, under a plan being actively touted by Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president.

BAE Systems paid more than £100m a year to Saudi Arabia’s former ambassador to Washington over more than a decade in connection with Britain’s biggest ever defence contract, according to British media reports.

Tony Blair has warned that an investigation into a £40 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia would lead to the "complete wreckage" of vital British national interests.

The former US President Jimmy Carter lambasted Tony Blair for his "blind " support of the Iraq war today, saying it had been a "major tragedy for the world".

Blair to say farewell at 12 tomorrow...

No one is claiming that British Prime Minister Tony Blair has given a lifetime of humanitarian service like Mother Theresa, or demonstrated the historical leadership of a Ronald Reagan. No one suggests the British Prime Minister, leading the avowedly socialist Labour Party, has embraced American values such as freedom and limited government, as Margaret Thatcher attempted before him. No, Tony Blair is being given this medal for one reason: he provided political support when international allies were sought for America’s attack on Iraq. Does this overtly political justification not cheapen both the medal itself and the achievements of those who have been awarded it previously?

Labour is taking a bruising as results come in from elections in Scotland, Wales and England - but Tony Blair's party appeared to have escaped the bloodbath some were predicting.

Blair set to quit as MP for £10 million bonanza...

Tony Blair has again rejected calls for a fresh inquiry into the 7/7 attacks, saying it would undermine the security services.

Blair 'unable to pick up US medal due to poodle claims'...

Tony Blair yesterday warned al-Qae-da would "come after" the UK unless Britain carried on fighting them in Iraq and Afghanistan.

THE corruption scandal involving the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has intensified, with police poised to charge some of his advisers. And an embarrassing document has surfaced that reveals Mr Blair's strategy for wooing and "flattering" wealthy donors.

Downing Street refused to answer questions about Mr. Blair's role insisting that this was a "decision taken by the navy''.

After saying at the weekend that he was "informed'' of the decision but "did not give explicit approval,'' No. 10 went into a shell.

"This was a decision taken by the navy. What's now important is to look into the issues in the round. I'm not going to get into the process of who knew what when. We recognise this was a difficult decision taken by the navy and that there was no easy answer here,'' said a spokesperson.

The Government faces damaging claims of misleading voters over ID cards after documents revealed it always planned to make the controversial scheme compulsory.

Whitehall papers, which the Government has fought for two years to suppress, disclose that Labour intended to force the public to sign up to the programme.

UK bans military from selling stories...

Britain has suspended boarding operations in the Persian Gulf and is reviewing all procedures after the detention by Iran of its 15 sailors and marines.

Blair bloviates...

Tony Blair's latest scandal...

How can you be certain which side of a boundary you are when that boundary has never been drawn?

Brits in the Gulf and a Doctored British Map? - UPDATED...

Blair believes he does what 'God' wants him to do, says diplomat's wife...

Blair aide ‘claimed Levy asked her to lie’...

Yesterday, the BBC quoted the judge who granted the original injunction, Mr Justice Wilkie, as saying: "There is a substantial element of truth in what the intended BBC broadcast was to say: there is a document addressed to Jonathan Powell in the course of which she [Ruth Turner] alleges that Lord Levy had asked her to lie for him." Lord Levy has denied any wrongdoing.

Blair used spin to justify Iraq war, says Blix...

"... there was a cartoon in a Tel Aviv newspaper showing a mighty Israeli armoured column as it plunges deep into the desert of Araby. In the corner, a tiny old lady dressed in black is shaking her fist at the incursion. "You see?" one Israeli soldier in the leading armoured vehicle is saying to another: "Anti-Semitism even here.""

Commit crimes. Yell 'anti-semitism'. Get away with it. Works for Israel.

An inquiry into allegations Tony Blair's government traded political honors for cash intensified Tuesday as British media reported a senior Blair aide had expressed concerns the leader's chief fundraiser had attempted to influence her evidence to police.

Lawyers for British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s government failed to stop the publication of a newspaper story about a possible cover-up in an investigation into political party funding

Downing Street has been accused of conducting a dirty tricks campaign in a desperate bid to undermine the cash for honours investigation.

The Attorney General has obtained an injunction against the BBC to stop it broadcasting an item about the cash for honours investigation.

Listening again to Blair's Today interview, it is easy to imagine his declarations as simply one melody in a discordant symphony, a series of those beloved soundbites that could be spliced with contrapuntal news of actual events. "We should be immensely proud." Crash! A six-hour firefight in Ramadi leaves 12 dead. "What we had to do was rebuild an Iraqi army and police - we did that." Bang! A US soldier dies and three are injured by a roadside bomb in Diwaniya. "It is better now that [Saddam] has gone." Wallop! A car bomb factory is discovered in Baghdad. Just as it was with his apparent inspiration, Comical Ali, it becomes ever more difficult to avoid the suspicion that the prime minister is living in a parallel universe, where success and failure are merely states of mind.

As the British announced the beginning of their departure from Iraq yesterday, President Bush's top foreign policy aide proclaimed it "basically a good-news story."

Blair refuses to accept blame over Iraq war...

Tony Blair's announcement yesterday on pulling out British troops from Iraq had been long expected, and produced little by way of surprises. For almost nine months now, senior military officers have been briefing that the force of 7,100 would be reduced to half the number by this spring.

Tony Blair sketches out Britain's exit from Iraq.

Britain to cut Iraq troop levels to around 5,000...

Rather than being told by the Prime Minister that the country was at war, they had been roused from their beds by policemen or phoned by journalists with news of the first American strikes.

But at this moment, 7.55am on March 20, 2003, they know no more about the final decision to launch the attack than the rest of the British public tuned in to the early-morning news.

Tony Blair has rejected claims that the UK is a "police state for Muslims" as "categorically wrong".

A third UK company that oversees Big Brother tracking and taxation policies has been targeted in a letter bombing campaign that has only succeeded in demonizing privacy and personal freedom advocates, while also wiping Tony Blair's cash for honors scandal off the front pages. British media outlets are busy trying link the letter bomber to anti-surveillance and tax protest groups.

'Half of voters' want Tony Blair to quit immediately...

Police fear lurid terror briefings being used to divert attention from Whitehall problems...

Booga Booga...

The first cracks in Cabinet support for Tony Blair have emerged as senior ministers begin to question whether he could remain in No 10 for another five months without inflicting lasting damage on the Labour Party.

A parliamentary scandal stalks Britain's prime minister in his waning days in office.

SHOCK admissions by one of Tony Blair's closest aides are set to lead to three people being charged in the Cash For Honours scandal....

Labour MPs warned Tony Blair last night that the Government was in danger of "falling apart" after the arrest of Lord Levy over an alleged Downing Street cover-up in the "cash for honours" inquiry.

Blair Ally Arrested in Corruption Probe...

Blair told to resign before bringing ignominy on himself...

Tony Blair has rejected a call for an October pull-out of UK troops from Iraq - but ducked discussing the issue with MPs at a Commons debate on the conflict.

Tony Blair is likely to stand down early if charges are brought in the cash-for-honours affair against any of his key aides, including Ruth Turner, arrested on Friday on suspicion of perverting the course of justice.

No 10 clashes with police over aide arrest...

FLASHBACK: Blair: Nuking Iran Would Be Absurd...

UK Politics" href="http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2129997.ece" target="_blank"> Blair still silent on Saddam...

"I shook his hand. I wish to God I hadn't. "It's a disgrace. He's lying about what is going on out there."

Disillusion with Labour is now so great that the party is losing a member every 20 minutes, a candidate for the Labour deputy leadership has claimed.

FBI WARNS OF A UK ATTACK...

Downing Street aides embroiled in the 'cash for honours' inquiry have hired their own lawyers in a sign that the police investigation is dividing Tony Blair's inner circle.

Crime about to rise and swamp prisons, warns Blair team...

Amid panic in Downing Street, police are understood to have widened their inquiry and to be examining several aspects of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act (PPERA) which the party is believed to have flouted. Sources close to the inquiry believe the case for a prosecution is getting stronger.

When Alastair Campbell left Downing Street in the wake of the death of Iraqi weapons expert Dr David Kelly, the Prime Minister's allies explicitly stated that he had learned his lesson.

They said that there would be no more spin, no more deception, no more smears, no more burying of bad news. Government henceforward was to be conducted on a straightforward basis.

How utterly wrong these claims turned out to be. I have been keeping a file of ministerial lies and deceptions, and it is now bulging.

Labour has no chance of winning the next Election because voters think the Government is a shambles - and there is little Gordon Brown can do to stop David Cameron becoming Prime Minister.

That is the devastating verdict of a secret Downing Street memo drawn up for Tony Blair by his senior advisers and obtained by The Mail on Sunday.

Mr Blair was grilled at a Press conference in Turkey on whether it was appropriate for Lord Levy to retain a role as Downing Street's go-between in Israel while he was still a police suspect.

Downing Street has denied any connection with an internal memo that apparently admits the Government is seen as a "shambles".

TONY BLAIR privately conceded two weeks before the Iraq war that Saddam Hussein did not have any usable weapons of mass destruction, Robin Cook, the former foreign secretary, reveals today.

Has Britain caved in to Saudi Blackmail, and breaking an international convention against bribery ?...

Blair: Iran is major threat...

But at a joint press conference after a White House meeting yesterday, the President ruled out early talks with Iran and Syria, as the ISG strongly recommended and on which Britain seems much keener. Though he held the door open to their inclusion in a regional support group to tackle the Iraq crisis, this could only happen if the two neighbours "faced their responsibilities" and ceased funding terrorists and threw their weight behind Iraq's fragile democracy.

But the direct talks with Tehran seen by some experts as an essential part of a new US strategy remain out of the question, Mr Bush stressed, until the regime verifiably suspended uranium enrichment. British officials later refused to make such a connection, pointing to the full diplomatic relations that exist between London and Tehran.

Britain tried to use Fear Propaganda and Starvation against "illiterate Egyptians". Isn't this State Sponsored terrorism?...

Tony Blair, en route to Riga yesterday for a Nato summit, denied that the party was technically bankrupt - the point at which a company cannot pay its debts and has liabilities exceeding its assets. But with Labour holding few assets, and running up a loss last year of £15m, business accountants questioned the Prime Minister's confidence. "If this was a company, I would be looking to wind it up," said one partner in a senior firm of corporate accountants.

Blair aides may have to resign after cash-for-peerages report published...

Craving a monstrous enemy, the prime minister has vastly overstated this supposed threat to world security

Tony Blair Tells David Frost War in Iraq is a Disaster...

Inside Downing Street Tony Blair had gathered some of his senior ministers and advisers for a pivotal meeting in the build-up to the Iraq war. It was 9am on July 23, 2002, eight months before the invasion began and long before the public was told war was inevitable.

Tony Blair last night used the rare opportunity of a historic address to the US Congress to declare that history would "forgive" him even if no weapons of mass destruction are uncovered in Iraq.

FLASHBACK: Blair 'Knew Iraq Had No WMD'...

Iraq is a 'disaster' admits Blair...

BBC Forums: How real is the threat of terrorism?...

A former US assistant defence secretary has blamed Britain for failing to "raise the alarm" with Washington over failings in the administration of Iraq following the war.

A former diplomat has revealed that the British mission to the United Nations opposed the policy of regime change in Iraq but was ordered by London to change its position in the lead-up to war.

Tony Blair is in a blind panic over the looming threat of being arrested in the police inquiry into the cash-for-peerages scandal, Cabinet sources have revealed.

No 10 warning as MPs debate Iraq...

The findings will heighten mounting unease among Labour MPs that Tony Blair's 'long goodbye' from Downing Street is damaging the party.

Britain's top soldier was vindicated as Tony Blair was forced to claim he agreed with every word of his devastating assessment of British policy in Iraq.

Within hours of his comments being made public, the Army's unofficial website was packed with hundreds of blogs from troops voicing their support. The messages included: "Can Tony Blair recover from this and justify British presence in Iraq, without using the words 'I was wrong ...?'" Another said: "Dannatt gets my vote! Anyone care to disagree with him? We were lied to when it all started and we are still lied to today!"

Blair more hated than Thatcher...

Blair pinched speech from The Grapes of Wrath...

Tens of thousands of protesters have gathered in the British city of Manchester calling for Tony Blair's resignation and an end to the country's involvement in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Up to 20,000 demonstrators have marched through the northern English city of Manchester to protest the presence of British troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

U.K. Police Arrest Labour Supporter in Loans-for-Honors Inquiry...

PM too subservient to US - Carter...

Labour officials have banned the grieving families of the Iraq war dead from staging a peaceful protest outside the party's forthcoming annual conference in Manchester.

BLAIR SHOWS WHO HE REALLY WORKS FOR......

The prime minister sealed his fate by signing up in full to a policy now recognised by most Americans as a disaster.

Blair to quit within a year...

MOST people believe that the Blair Government’s foreign policy has increased significantly the risk of terrorist attacks and now want Britain to distance itself from America and set a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq, according to a poll for The Times.

"Blair will only leave number 10 kicking and screaming leaving bloody nail marks on the door frame."

Six junior members of British Prime Minister Tony Blair's government resigned Wednesday to protest his refusal to set a date to leave office amid a growing Labour Party revolt. The rebellion flared despite strong hints by senior ministers that Blair planned to step down within a year, and a news report claiming the departure date would be July 26.

A sensational memo leaked to the Mirror reveals how Labour experts are planning Tony Blair's exit from No10.

The retirement blueprint aims to promote the "triumph of Blairism" and allow the PM to quit on a wave of euphoria after 10 years in office.

MPs' letter demands Blair's exit...

Tony Blair will be served notice to quit Downing Street at a meeting of the Cabinet next week when senior ministers plan to confront him over his refusal to commit to a departure timetable.

Forty Labour Party members in the constituency of Margaret Beckett, the Foreign Secretary, have defected to the Liberal Democrats because she and Tony Blair "sided with George Bush" over the Middle East crisis.

Only 20% Of Britons Believe Blair On Terror Threats...

Relatives of some of the 115 British soldiers killed in Iraq have announced their intention to form a new political party to contest parliamentary elections.

Demands for Tony Blair to quit over his support for US President George W Bush in the Middle East are to be taken to Labour's annual conference next month in a direct challenge to his leadership by left-wing Labour campaigners.

Public support for the British government's alliance with the United States in its war on terror, has dropped markedly since claims by British police they foiled a plot to blow up around a dozen planes.

"At best, Blair sounds like a defeated former colonialist visiting the world from his grave. At worst, we just had the opportunity to peep into the mind of a desperate war lord."

UK Politics" href="http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article1214560.ece" target="_blank"> More than 100 MPs sign petition attacking PM...

Blair 'must go and go now' as pressure mounts...

TONY Blair last night dismissed a growing Cabinet revolt over the Middle East crisis by boasting of his "complete inner confidence" in his own convictions.

He shrugged off criticism from senior colleagues, including Commons Leader Jack Straw, over his handling of the conflict.

Tony Blair was facing a full-scale cabinet rebellion last night over the Middle East crisis after his former Foreign Secretary warned that Israel's actions risked destabilising all of Lebanon.

A House of Lords committee has called for Prime Minister Tony Blair to be stripped of his power to send Britain to war.

Blair and Bush to meet in Washington to discuss Israel, Lebanon...

A former top foreign policy adviser to Tony Blair is urging the Prime Minister to speak out against the Zionist regimes's indiscriminate killing of civilians in Lebanon and destruction of the country's infrastructure.

"Unhitch us from the Bush chariot," Sir Stephen Wall told Blair, warning him that the silence was damaging Britain's reputation in the Middle East by his complicity.