The former British leader, who has rarely been accused of lacking ambition, was spotted at the Gaza summit in Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh on Monday. Starmer, the current Labour prime minister, was also there. He kept his distance from his predecessor, whom many British MPs have started calling "Viceroy Blair".

Beckett told Al Jazeera that “most fatally of all, the difficulty was that when he went to meetings in the Middle East, nobody knew which Tony Blair they were seeing—whether it was Tony Blair the Quartet envoy or Tony Blair the patron of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation or Tony Blair the principle of the consultancy firm Tony Blair Associates.”

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has returned to the forefront of Middle East peace efforts with a U.S. proposal that he take a leading role in overseeing Gaza's administration and reconstruction.

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - A senior Hamas official has expressed gratitude to US President Donald Trump for helping to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza. Basem Naim conveyed his thanks in an interview with Sky News, but he stated that they will not accept former British Prime Minister Tony Blair in any war in Gaza.

Seven years ago, Prime Minister Tony Blair made Britain America’s most prominent ally in the war in Iraq, ultimately committing 40,000 soldiers. But no weapons of mass destruction were ever found, and Blair’s actions helped lead to his ouster from office.