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FILE - In this Friday, Dec. 14, 2018 file photo, Britain's former Prime Minister Tony Blair makes a speech on Brexit at the British Academy in London. In a lengthy essay posted on his website late Saturday Aug. 21, 2021, Tony Blair, the British prime minister who deployed troops to Afghanistan 20 years ago after the 9/11 attacks, says the U.S. decision to withdraw from the country has “every Jihadist group round the world cheering.” (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

‘Imbecilic’: Ex-UK leader Tony Blair slams Afghan withdrawal

By Associated Press - The Washington Times

In this file photo, former British prime minister Tony Blair gives a speech on Brexit at the Institute for Government in central London, Monday Sept. 2, 2019. (Aaron Chown/Pool via AP)

Tony Blair: Moderates must ‘redefine what being radical means’

By Madison Hirneisen - The Washington Times

Britain’s EU Journey: When Blair’s EU aspirations faded away

By PAN PYLAS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019 file photo Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has his beard trimmed in Big Mel's Barbershop, Carmarthen, while on the General Election campaign trail in Wales. (Victoria Jones/PA via AP, File)

Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn: Redistribute UK wealth, tax the rich

By GREGORY KATZ - Associated Press

AP Interview: Blair on racism, human rights at sports events

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair stands during an interview about the Good Friday agreement on the eve of its 20th anniversary, in London, Monday, April 9, 2018. The agreement known as the Good Friday Agreement, was signed by Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern and British Prime Minister Tony Blair on April 10, 1998 and brought together Catholic nationalists and Protestant unionists in a government for Northern Ireland's Catholics and Protestants. (Stefan Rousseau/PA via AP)

Northern Ireland marks 20 years of peace deal as Brexit casts shadow

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Tony Blair chosen as recipient of Lincoln Leadership Prize

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FILE - In this July 15, 1997 file photo, Cherie Booth with her parents Gale and Tony Booth after receiving an honorary fellowship from John Moore's University in Liverpool, England. British actor Tony Booth, father-in-law of former Prime Minister Tony Blair, has died aged 85. Booth's family says he died late Monday, Sept. 25, 2017 after suffering from Alzheimer's disease and heart problems. Booth had his most enduring role as the left-wing son-in-law of a bigoted father in the sitcom &quot;Till Death Us Do Part.&quot; The show ran for almost a decade from 1966 and inspired the American series &quot;All in the Family.&quot; (Peter Wilcock/PA via AP, file)

Actor Tony Booth, father-in-law of Tony Blair, dies at 85

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Protesters hold placards outside the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London, shortly before the publication of the Chilcot report into the Iraq war, Wednesday, July 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Tony Blair on hot seat; John Chilcot Iraq report says U.K. planning for war ‘wholly inadequate’

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In this image taken from TV, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair gestures while appearing in front of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee at the House of Commons in London on Friday Dec. 11, 2015, where he is giving evidence on Britain's foreign policy towards Libya. (PA via AP) ** FILE **

Tony Blair, former British prime minister: Brexit vote testing populist politics

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Huma Abedin, long-time aide of former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, was paid by a private firm to help stage an event with former President Bill Clinton. (Associated Press)

Hillary Clinton aide, Huma Abedin, paid by firm to stage event with Bill Clinton while at State

By John Solomon and Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times

FILE - In this July 26 2005 file photo, a closed-circuit surveillance cameras, with a Union flag at rear, keeps watch in central London. After four home-grown suicide bombers killed 52 London commuters on July 7, 2005, Prime Minister Tony Blair vowed that Britain would stop at nothing to defeat terrorism. &quot;Let no one be in any doubt,&quot; he said. &quot;The rules of the game are changing.&quot; Since the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States four years earlier, Britain had made its anti-terrorism powers among the toughest in the Western world. Now they became tougher still. &quot;What 7/7 did was it made people realize that the threat was internal as well as external,&quot; said David Anderson, Britain's official reviewer of terrorism legislation. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

7/7 spurred tough anti-terror measures some say went too far

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

Illustration on Prince Charles' correspondence with Tony Blair by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

R. EMMETT TYRRELL: Guardian gains access to Prince Charles’ letters to prime minister

By R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.

A photo of former Britain Prime Minister Tony Blair and wife Cherie's Christmas card is making the rounds on Twitter.

Tony Blair’s Christmas card mocked as ‘the stuff of nightmares’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa., in this April 8, 2013, file photo. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Tony Blair: Airstrikes absent ground troops won’t beat Islamic State

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Florida editorial roundup

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Tony Blair’s belated about-face on Islam

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa., in this April 8, 2013, file photo. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Tony Blair to warn West: Take sides against radical Islam

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

British Prime Minister David Cameron talks during a joint press conference following his meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at his headquarters in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Thursday, March 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

David Cameron: Tony Blair’s not really my friend

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks and her husband Charlie Brooks arrive at the Old Bailey, the Central Criminal Court, in London, Monday March 3rd, 2014. for the continuation of the phone hacking trial. (AP Photo/PA, Sean Dempsey) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVE

Piers Morgan emailed support to Brooks on hacking

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press