William Hague talks to Tony Blair: Legacy, war and prospects for peace in the Middle East
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The Times
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🗓️ 4 September 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Will there ever be peace in the Middle East? How should we interact with China, Russia and Europe? And how does the man who took the UK into the Iraq war look back on his legacy? William Hague talks to his former adversary from across the dispatch box, Tony Blair.
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| 1:09.0 | I'm William Haig. |
| 1:11.0 | My guest today is William Haig. |
| 1:13.9 | My guest today is former Prime Minister, Tony Blair, the man I spent four years sparring with |
| 1:20.5 | when he was running the country, remaking it in the image of new labor |
| 1:25.0 | when I was leader of the opposition. |
| 1:28.0 | During his decade in power, he dealt with 9-11, |
| 1:32.0 | the London bombings, the Good Friday Agreement, and infamously took us to war in Iraq. |
| 1:39.0 | So as another war, the Gaza-Israel conflict rumbles on. We sat down to talk about the prospect of peace in the Middle East, |
| 1:48.0 | a region he's visited nearly 300 times. |
| 1:52.0 | We have to create a governance in Gaza where it's neither threatening Israel, |
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