It was wrong to exclude Blair and Brown from royal wedding guest list
THE decision to deny Tony Blair and Gordon Brown invites to the royal wedding is a disrespectful snub that is as divisive as it is ill-judged ("Blair and Brown fail to make the royal wedding guest list", The Herald, April 25).
THE decision to deny Tony Blair and Gordon Brown invites to the royal wedding is a disrespectful snub that is as divisive as it is ill-judged (\"Blair and Brown fail to make the royal wedding guest list\", The Herald, April 25).
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Like him or loathe him, Tony Blair’s 10 years as prime minister made for a stronger, more prosperous and fairer Britain, and coincided with a particularly difficult and challenging time in world affairs. That he enjoyed consistently higher levels of public support than the current Downing Street incumbents leads one to believe the decision to exclude him from the wedding is as much down to political jealousy as royal protocol. By contrast, it seems bizarre that John Major should receive an invitation, as one of the weakest prime ministers in living memory who cemented the North-South divide.
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It was wrong to exclude Blair and Brown from royal wedding guest list
THE decision to deny Tony Blair and Gordon Brown invites to the royal wedding is a disrespectful snub that is as divisive as it is ill-judged ("Blair and Brown fail to make the royal wedding guest list", The Herald, April 25).
Like him or loathe him, Tony Blair’s 10 years as prime minister made for a stronger, more prosperous and fairer Britain, and coincided with a particularly difficult and challenging time in world affairs. That he enjoyed consistently higher levels of public support than the current Downing Street incumbents leads one to believe the decision to exclude him from the wedding is as much down to political jealousy as royal protocol. By contrast, it seems bizarre that John Major should receive an invitation, as one of the weakest prime ministers in living memory who cemented the North-South divide.
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