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The Philippine President and former UK prime minister’s public engagements have been fairly common and frequent. The July 2026 assembly in Manila is their fifth, so far.
On the third day of his erstwhile ally Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment trial, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. met with a former world chief who had seen, served, and finally bowed out of his nation’s high submit after upheavals each home and geopolitical.
“It was a pleasure to welcome former UK prime minister Sir Tony Blair to Malacañang immediately. As one in all Britain’s longest-serving prime ministers, he continues to contribute to world conversations on governance and public coverage by the Tony Blair Institute for International Change,” Marcos wrote in a submit late Wednesday, July 8.
No different particulars concerning the assembly had been made out there to the general public, both from Marcos himself or Malacañang Palace.
Marcos and Blair have met a number of instances previously.
Their first public assembly with Marcos as president occurred in September 2022, on the sidelines of the Philippine President’s working go to to New York for the United Nations Normal Meeting Excessive Stage Week. Simply over a month later, in October 2022, Marcos welcomed Blair to Malacañang for the primary time. The Palace stated then that the 2 “mentioned a variety of matters on forms and governance primarily based on the most effective practices in developed international locations.”
Months later, they met in Davos, Switzerland, in January 2023, on the sidelines of the World Financial Discussion board.
In April 2024, Blair visited Marcos in Malacañang once more, the place they mentioned “potential collaboration with the Tony Blair Institute for International Change on varied initiatives.” The assembly, as in 2022, apparently coated peace efforts in Mindanao, meals safety, local weather change, and commerce.
Curiously, no assembly occurred in 2025 — a 12 months of upheavals for Marcos. It was that 12 months when his administration despatched former president Rodrigo Duterte to the Netherlands, the place the latter now awaits trial for crimes in opposition to humanity associated to his bloody drug warfare. Months later, his endorsed Senate slate fared poorly within the 2025 midterm elections. It was additionally in 2025 that the schism between him and Vice President Duterte unsurprisingly deepened much more.
So, what did Marcos and Blair have to speak about this time?
Based on its personal web site, the Tony Blair Institute for International Change “[helps] governments and leaders flip daring concepts into actuality.” How, precisely? “We do it by advising on technique, coverage and supply, unlocking the facility of expertise throughout all three. We do it by sharing our insights so everybody can profit. And we do it to assist construct extra open, inclusive, and affluent international locations for individuals in every single place,” learn the web site of the ‘not-for-profit, non-partisan group.’
Blair continues to be fairly a public determine in his personal proper, regardless of having stepped down from workplace almost twenty years in the past, each in home and worldwide politics. In Might this 12 months, Blair penned a prolonged commentary in opposition to the present leaders of the Labour Get together, which he as soon as led.
The Guardian described the essay, revealed on his institute’s web site, as “a extremely uncommon intervention for a previous Labour prime minister.” Present United Kingdom Prime Minister and Labour Get together chair Keir Starmer introduced his resignation from each posts in late June 2026.
Marcos is, but once more, at one other essential level of his administration, and in its waning years. In lower than two years, the 2028 presidential elections are set to happen. Simply over a 12 months from now, hopefuls can be submitting their candidacies.
But 2028 is already in full swing — prompted, principally, by Vice President Duterte’s very early announcement of her plans to run for president in 2028. Together with his numbers nonetheless down and financial numbers not precisely wanting hopeful (regardless of the improve to an upper-middle revenue nation), Marcos will want all the recommendation he can muster. – Rappler.com
