Articles about Tony Blair

7 June 2013
Labour Lord Alli: We won the equal marriage vote but there is still a long way to go 26 Writing exclusively for PinkNews.co.uk, Labour peer Lord Alli, the first openly gay peer to be appointed, says he was stunned by the House of Lords decision to support the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill with such an overwhelming majority, and has paid tribute to Conservative peer Lord Jenkin for his powerful equal marriage speech.
4 June 2013
Labour Lord Alli praises David Cameron over his ‘courageous’ support for equal marriage 4 Labour peer Lord Waheed Alli has paid tribute to Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron over his “courageous” support for equal marriage.
17 April 2013
UK: Thatcher opponents stage funeral protests 40 A small group of protesters of Margaret Thatcher’s LGBT legacy have lined the route of the former PM's funeral in central London.
12 April 2013
London: Stonewall celebrity dinner raises £394,000 9 Over 500 guests, including celebrities and politicians, attended Stonewall’s annual Equality Dinner at London’s Dorchester Hotel last night.
10 April 2013
Ed Miliband: Gay people were left ‘stigmatised’ by Margaret Thatcher’s Section 28 20 Ed Miliband has joined his political rivals in paying tribute to Margaret Thatcher, but says her support for Section 28 caused gay people to be “stigmatised”.
8 February 2013
Tory Eastleigh by-election candidate denies making homophobic slur — but confirms she’s against equality 48 The Conservative Party’s candidate for this month’s Eastleigh by-election denies saying Labour did more for “immigrants, the gays, the bloody foxes” than children with special needs.
25 January 2013
Labour MP Steve Reed: The battle for equality is not yet over 7 Writing for PinkNews, Steve Reed, Labour MP for Croydon North and Patron of LGBT Labour welcomes the publication of the government’s Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill – but warns “this is no time to rest on our achievements.”
10 January 2013
Exclusive: David Blunkett: Equal marriage plans are ‘a complete dog’s dinner’ 37 Labour’s former home secretary David Blunkett has described the government’s equal marriage plans for England and Wales as a “complete dog’s dinner”.
20 March 2012
Tony Blair avoids question on Liberian anti-gay law 38 Former UK prime minister Tony Blair avoided answering a question about his view on Liberia's anti-gay laws during an interview with President Sirleaf.
22 November 2010
Peter Mandelson won’t rule out a return to politics 6 Lord Mandelson has said he will not rule out a return to politics.
29 January 2010
Gay MP and blogger in Twitter spat 37 Labour MP Chris Bryant and Tory blogger Iain Dale had a war of Tweets this afternoon over Tory leader David Cameron.
18 January 2010
Author of Uganda’s gay execution bill to attend prayer breakfast with Obama 25 David Bahati, the MP who authored Uganda's anti-homosexuality bill, is expected to attend a prayer breakfast with US president Barack Obama.
16 December 2009
More schools running ‘anti-gay’ Christian crash-courses 16 Increasing numbers of schools are opting to run a youth version of the Alpha course, it has been reported.

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