Tony Blair’s government pressed ahead with an open borders policy for new EU countries in 2004 despite ministers urging him ...

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

The former Prime Minister in 2004 granted eastern Europeans unrestricted access to the UK labour market despite concern from ...

Tony Blair's Labour government pushed on with plans to open the UK's borders to Eastern Europe despite mounting concerns from ...

Senior ministers urged the then-Prime Minister Tony Blair to delay granting employment rights to eastern and central European ...

Three visitors' books from Downing Street signed by some of the most famous names in modern history have been released to the ...

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

If Keir’s second six months as prime minister are as bad as his first, they could very conceivably be his last.” ...

Tony Blair's Labour government pressed ahead with ... Papers released to the National Archives in Kew, west London, show deputy prime minister John Prescott and foreign secretary Jack Straw ...

A landmark speech by Rhodri Morgan setting out his political vision for Wales was privately dismissed as "dreadful nonsense" by Tony Blair when he was prime minister. In a lecture in 2002 ...

According to the Cabinet papers, the Home Office had predicted the impact ... was feeling badly let down by the prime minister. Image: Tony Blair with Silvio Berlusconi inside number 10 Downing ...

Tony Blair's Labour government pressed ahead with ... Papers released to National Archives in Kew, west London, show deputy prime minister John Prescott and foreign secretary Jack Straw both ...