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Byline: JOHN KAMPFNER Hatreds; rivalries; fisticuffs; character assassinations - whenever journalists wrote about the feuding inside the Labour government, they were denounced as liars or fantasists. Once Tony Blair and [...]

Byline: John Kampfner Was it a lack of courage that was the undoing of New Labour or an absence of purpose? As former ministers and advisers ponder the future, disorientated [...]

Byline: JOHN KAMPFNER If the task of Liberal Democrat leaders is to be noticed, this has been an impressive week for Nick Clegg. Commentators have been speculating wildly about where [...]

Four years ago, as Tony Blair was hanging on to his premiership by his fingertips, I wrote a piece suggesting that perhaps, after all, Gordon Brown might not have what [...]

Tony Blair called it the 'fellowship''. He was returning from St Petersburg and his first meeting with Vladimir Putin. The new Russian president had wined and dined the British first [...]