Ambitious Quote by Melanie Phillips

Overall his period in office can only be characterised as a decade of missed opportunities in which the hopes of the British people for…

— Menzies Campbell

The Blair government has lowered the standing of politics and politicians in our country.

— Kenneth Clarke

There has always been something less than wholesome about New Labour. But Blair for a long time had an easy ride. There was the…

— Martin Jacques

The question Tony Blair should be reflecting on this weekend is having achieved this, having secured his place in the history of the Labour…

— Robin Cook

People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world…

— Bianca Jagger

When I first met Tony Blair in 1996, he was open and idealistic, keen to bring a breath of fresh air to government. But…

— Rory Bremner

There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity…

— Frances O'Grady

The Blair government perhaps ranks as the best the U.K. has had for 50 years. It cannot match the scale of Attlee's reforms, but…

— Martin Rees

The New Labour political elite has long conspired to secure a so-called 'smooth transition' for Blair's successor. This would amount to little more than…

— John McDonnell

People realise that his promise [Tony Blair's] to 'save the NHS' was just talk.

— Liam Fox

I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for…

— Jonathan Coe

Tony Blair has turned his back on the principles he claimed he believed in before he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with George W. Bush. He was…

— Bianca Jagger