The Blair government's open borders policy is seen as having caused a surge in net migration, contributing to an anti-EU ...

The accession of Eastern European countries to the EU in 2004 prompted concern at the highest levels of Tony Blair's ...

Papers from the National Archives show Tony Blair was warned of an immigration surge from Eastern Europe following the 2004 ...

Newly released official files lift lid on how ministers expressed concerns over unrestricted access for workers from new EU ...

Tony Blair's Labour government pressed ahead with ... it helped fuel the anti-EU sentiment which ultimately led to the 2016 Brexit vote. By November 2004, instead of the 6,000 or so immigrants ...

Tony Blair's Labour government pushed on with plans ... is seen as having helped fuel anti-EU sentiment by the time of the Brexit referendum in 2016. There was a major increase in immigration ...

Prime minister ignored advice of Straw and Prescott who feared allowing immediate unrestricted access would lead to a surge ...

The Good Friday Agreement is “at risk because of Brexit” after the UK leaves the EU, former prime minister Tony Blair has told the BBC. UK and Irish membership of the EU was “central” to ...

The unreasonableness of David Trimble’s behaviour sometimes obscured the reasonableness of his argument, said Tony Blair ...

Tony Blair's close ally Peter Mandelson is set to ... He also served as EU trade commissioner and was vigorously anti-Brexit, including running the campaign for a second referendum.

Tony Blair’s Labour government pressed ahead with ... it helped fuel the anti-EU sentiment which ultimately led to the 2016 Brexit vote. When the Labour government announced in 2002 that ...

It means the the civil service is now the same size as it was 18 years ago, when Tony Blair was still prime minister. During ...