He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2022 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours for public service.
Blair's front-page report on the Palestinian suffering caused by this attack, headlined "Blasted to Rubble by the Israelis",[7] attracted considerable attention as The Daily Telegraph had always been perceived as favourable to Israel.
At the height of the looting in Baghdad in April 2003, Blair entered Saddam Hussein's old foreign ministry and found documents purporting to show that George Galloway, then a member of parliament, had received money from the deposed regime.
[8] Galloway won the case in November 2004 and the newspaper paid him damages of £150,000 plus, after a failed appeal,[9] legal costs of about £2 million.
[11] Instead, the paper sought to argue that it acted responsibly because the allegations it reported were of sufficient public interest to outweigh the damage caused to Galloway's reputation.