Downing Street plays down Blair &#39;EU president&#39; report
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Prime Minister Tony Blair&#39;s office played down a report Saturday that he was being touted for the role of the European Union&#39;s first full-time president.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair declined to set a date for his departure as leader of the government, in an interview with The Times.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair&#39;s office yesterday dismissed a newspaper report that he had ordered the military to prepare 3,000 troops for a possible mission to Sudan&#39;s violence-torn Darfur region.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair has refused to heed opposition calls to resign over the cash-for-honours criminal probe, saying it was not &quot;distracting&quot; him from his work.
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Downing Street denied any "conflict of interest" after British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife rented two apartments to staff of French defence group Thales which has signed enormous contracts with the British army.
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LONDON: British Prime Minister Tony Blair angrily denied allegations from his political foes yesterday that he "misrepresented" intelligence in making the case to join the US-led invasion of Iraq last year.
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Downing Street reveals that page of doodles found on Tony Blair's desk at a summit were not by the prime minister.
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Tony Blair has hit back on "cash for honours" allegations and criticism over the dropping of a Saudi arms inquiry.
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Downing Street has played down reports that the Prime Minister may call an early election in February. Most political commentators expect Mr Blair to seek a new mandate in May 2005 since to go to the polls
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Downing Street stresses that the government's position on not negotiating with terrorists remains unchanged.
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LONDON - Prime Minister Tony Blair denied Wednesday that he misrepresented intelligence about Iraqi weapons before the war, rejecting growing demands in Parliament that he apologize.
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Downing Street dismisses a scathing attack by former BBC boss Greg Dyke over Tony Blair's handling of the war in Iraq.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair said yesterday that Europe was &#39;&#39;not naive&#39;&#39; about Iran&#39;s nuclear plans and would ensure Tehran fulfils an obligation to freeze work that could lead to making nuclear weapons.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair shrugged off criticism of his close alliance with US President George W Bush on Thursday ahead of a visit to Washington, calling such links &quot;part of the job&quot;.
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Tony Blair's ministers have said it, his political opponents are baying for it but the British prime minister refuses to utter it.
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The White House played down talk that the United States might be headed for a recession and said a report on fourth-quarter gross domestic product released earlier on Wednesday did not change its outlook.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair has defended himself against criticism of a decision to stop a probe into a British weapons deal with Saudi Arabia, saying he was promoting national strategic interests.