Is Tony Blair really the right person to sort out the Middle East?
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🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Earlier this week President Trump announced his so-called "Board of Peace", to help bring an end to the war in Gaza.
He also announced that Tony Blair would be a member. He's a "very good man", Trump said. But considering his legacy in the region, is the former Prime Minister really the person to work alongside Trump and Netanyahu to bring about peace?
Later in the show, Emily speaks with the playwright Suzie Miller, who discusses how we should be educating young men to help them avoid a growing culture of toxic, abusive and misogynistic behaviour.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.6 | This is a global player original podcast. Yesterday at the White House, we put forward a plan for |
| 0:15.8 | peace in Gaza. We announced it and we're going to create something that was my idea, but unfortunately I got drafted. |
| 0:23.6 | It's going to be called the Board of Peace, and it's going to rain over that territory, and we're going to get that done. |
| 0:32.6 | And they asked if I'd be the chairman of the Board of Peace. I wasn't counting on that. I had the idea for the Board of Peace. |
| 0:39.0 | But I'd said yes, and I guess because of that, |
| 0:41.4 | every leader, everybody wants to be on the Board of Peace, |
| 0:45.2 | and we're going to watch over that very volatile part of the world |
| 0:47.9 | and keep it non-volatile. |
| 0:50.3 | That is Donald Trump and his plan for Gaza, |
| 0:54.0 | and what he says will bring eternal peace to the Middle East for the first time in 3,000 years. |
| 1:02.8 | But so far, we haven't heard from Hamas and whether they're going to buy into this. |
| 1:08.9 | And if not, what then? |
| 1:10.3 | The Board of Peace will comprise Trump, Tony Blair, and Netanyahu. Are those the right |
| 1:17.8 | men to sort out the Middle East? Welcome to the news agents. |
| 1:25.9 | The News Agents. |
| 1:28.9 | It's John. It's Emily. |
| 1:35.0 | And as things stand, we're waiting for Hamas to pronounce on whether they're going to accept this 20-point plan that was unveiled at the White House that involved Tony Blair and |
| 1:41.0 | Steve Wickeff and Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner in drafting this proposal, |
| 1:45.6 | which has got the support of the Gulf Arab nations and has got the support of the Turks, |
| 1:50.9 | and there is considerable pressure being applied to Hamas to accept this peace deal, |
| 1:56.8 | which will see an immediate cessation of the war, the return of all the remaining living hostages |
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