Tony Blair's Labour government pushed on with plans to open the UK's borders to Eastern Europe despite mounting concerns from senior ministers, according to newly released official files.

Tony Blair with his foreign secretary at the time, Jack Straw Senior ministers urged the then-Prime Minister Tony Blair to delay granting employment rights to eastern and central European workers ...

A landmark speech by Rhodri Morgan setting out his political vision for Wales was privately dismissed as "dreadful nonsense" by Tony Blair when he was prime minister. In a lecture in 2002 ...