many people think he abused you know the middle east and also the population of the united kingdom tony blair backs labour's land value tax to tackle housing crisis tony blair is backing one of the most controversial measures raised in labour's last manifesto by supporting a new land value tax designed to help solve the housing crisis so they're saying obviously it would be a huge shift left whether or not if you were in power if you were still in power of course you would never do this and why you would never do this is as the article points out is successive governments including blair's repeatedly avoided dealing with the council tax system which is based on wildly out of date house price valuations because the politically explosive consequences of updating it doing so could see some asset rich but cash poor people such as old early homeowners hit with big bills so the baby boomers they got the free houses as i mentioned before they got the free houses from margaret thatcher and they see those profits as theirs they do not want anybody to take those profits for them and if they do even if

united kingdom on this. northern ireland came up once, when john major tony blair went to speak there. and that was it.esponse, not much interest. that was the sole focus. now, they are a reminder of two prime ministers who lived and breathed northern ireland politics and the good friday agreement. they would've known about the significance and the multilayered complexities. this peace agreement that effectively, not completely, brought an end to the armed violence that was taking place for decades. on the assumption of northern ireland being part of the european union, like southern ireland. and suddenly all this changes. and theresa may arrives. she was home secretary, she obviously had security issues with northern ireland but beyond that northern ireland had not been on her radar as a senior politician. and i think she hugely underestimated it. in fairness to david davis and others,... he's the british negotiator. the british brexit secretary in the united kingdom. they are acutely aware of it. they do have logical point in saying that before we know the end agreement, it is very hard to deal with