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By politics.co.uk staff Sir Michael Lyons has announced he intends to step down from his position as chairman of the BBC Trust when his contract expires next year. He had previously said he was “up for” renewing the contract, but in a letter to media secretary Jeremy Hunt he explained that the job was taking… Read more »
Alastair Campbell has lashed out at a new film portraying the relationship between Tony Blair and Bill Clinton. ‘Special Relationship’, which stars the same actors as the hugely successful ‘The Queen’, covers the years in which Mr Blair and Mr Clinton cemented their friendship, only to be tested by the Monica Lewinsky scandal and the… Read more »