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Who's on the wrong side of the UK digital divide?
News It's several years since former Prime Minister Tony Blair pledged to have achieved "universal internet access for all who want it" in the UK. A 2002 government report on progress towards Blair's... [07 Apr 2008]
Tories broadside Blair over open source
News Within the UK, Osborne's thoughts are at least partly shared by John Pugh, a Liberal Democrat MP who is campaigning for greater use of open source software in schools. George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, has... [08 Mar 2007]
ID cards costs reach almost £50m
News Prime Minister Tony Blair said earlier this month ID cards will be a central plank of Labour's next election manifesto, despite delays in putting the identity cards contracts out to tender and leaked memos from a senior... [18 Aug 2006]
ID cards scheme under fire again
News But Phil Booth, national co-ordinator of the No2ID campaign group, said: "For Tony Blair to start writing a manifesto for an election in which he won't even stand as an MP smacks of sheer desperation. [04 Aug 2006]
Houses of Parliament IT "really sucks"
News Shapps said the lack of interest in technology among many MPs, embodied by self-professed technophobe Prime Minister Tony Blair, means there are few strong voices to push for modernisation and change. [20 Mar 2006]
Leader: ID card vote shames IT industry
Leader The bill scraped through by just 25 votes, largely on the back of a three-line whip to ensure that Labour MPs toed the party line and that Blair didn't suffer an embarrassing defeat on a flagship election manifesto policy. [19 Oct 2005]
Rebel MPs fail to kill ID card bill
News Rebel Labour MPs failed to block the passage of the controversial ID Cards bill despite slashing Prime Minister Tony Blair's already slender majority by more than half in Tuesday's House of Commons vote. [19 Oct 2005]
ID Cards on Trial: Blair warned by rebel MPs
News That still leaves rebels needing another 14 Labour MPs to vote against the party whip and join Conservative and Liberal Democrat MPs, if Prime Minister Tony Blair's majority of 68 is to be overturned and the ID cards... [24 Jun 2005]
ID Cards on Trial: Blair faces backbench revolt
News The warning comes from backbench Labour MP Bob Marshall-Andrews (Medway) who is backing silicon.com's ID Cards on Trial campaign to challenge the government over the unrealistic costs, unproven technology and creeping... [17 Jun 2005]
Blair to make ID cards concessions
News That should be enough to appease most of Labour's own MPs who voted against ID cards last time with today's papers reporting Hampstead and Highgate MP Glenda Jackson as saying the rebels won't be trapped into getting... [16 May 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.05.05
Round-Up Of course Straw angered millions across the UK when he, along with Tony Blair, took the country to war in Iraq but among those who took greatest exception to his trigger happy politics were voters in his own,... [06 May 2005]
Election '05: The best of silicon.com's coverage
News Bookies tip Blair for 60-seat victory Blair offers £10m "prize" to bridge UK digital divide Tech-champion MP Richard Allan on his political time With election day upon us, silicon.com... [04 May 2005]
Computer misuse update: Doomed to fail?
News But with Tony Blair set to ask the Queen to dissolve Parliament ahead of the General Election, around the same time Wyatt will be speaking, it is unlikely there will be the audience or the inclination to do much with... [04 Apr 2005]
'Cash for tech SMEs' Bill hit by Blair's timekeeping
News Anne Campbell, Labour MP for Cambridge, who proposed the Bill told silicon.com the reaction to the Bill has been "very positive so far" but expressed her concerns that measures to help tech companies in the budget could... [23 Mar 2005]
ID card plans "dead in the water"
News Liberal Democrat MP Richard Allan told silicon.com the government should take the opportunity to rethink its "half-baked" ID card proposals after the election, which Labour and Tony Blair are expected to... [16 Mar 2005]
