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Anne McElvoy

Anne McElvoy is on the staff of ‘The Economist’, a columnist for 'the Evening Standard'and a panellist on Radio 4’s ‘Moral Maze

<p>‘Rachel-speak is now a language of evasion and inventive obfuscation. Her line that everyone would “make a contribution” to national well-being sounded like one of those office leaving do whip-rounds no one really wants, but few get out of either’</p>

Reeves’s Budget was the office whip-round nobody could quite avoid

<p>Tony Blair has emerged as a potential peacemaker in the Gaza conflict but his influence is also widespread in the current Labour Party</p>

He Who Blairs: How Tony took over Keir Starmer’s government by stealth

<p>Tim Allan will return as executive head of communications following the ousting of James Lyons</p>

Can Blair’s Smooth Operator help Starmer stem the rise of Reform?

<p>Good relations between Blair and Trump are sure to be a good thing</p>

Inside Tony Blair and Donald Trump’s ‘special’ relationship