Tony Blair

Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, known as Tony Blair, is the outgoing Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland [i] is in ... 

, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, Leader of the UK Labour Party, and Member of the UK Parliament for the constituency of Sedgefield in North East England North East England

North East England is one of the nine official regions of England [i] and comprises the combined area of ... 

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Timeline

1953   Current British Labour Prime Minister, Tony Blair born.

1953   Born

1997   Tony Blair is appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

1998   Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Dáil, the Republic of Ireland's parliament.

2001   Tony Blair's Labour Party wins the UK General Election.

2003   Iraq disarmament crisis: British prime minister Tony Blair proposes an amendment to the possible 18th U.N. resolution, which would call for Iraq to meet certain benchmarks to prove that it was disarming. The amendment is immediately rejected by France, who promises to veto any new resolution.

2004   Tony Blair is hit with a purple flour bomb in the chamber of the House of Commons during a session of Prime Minister's Questions.


Quotations

Sovereignty rests with me as an English MP and that's the way it will stay.

ibid.

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.

Mail on Sunday, 2 October 1994.

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

Michael White, "Blair wants 'to make UK young again'", Guardian, 4 October 1995., Speech to the Labour Party conference, 3 October 1995.

I want to see a publicly-owned railway, publicly accountable.

Paul Routledge, "Why the unions aren't rocking Blair's boat", Independent on Sunday, 8 October 1995., Speech to the Labour Party conference, 3 October 1995.

Sometimes, and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war.

Speech to the Labour conference in Blackpool, 2 October 2002. Perhaps echoes an old latin proverb, Si vis pacem, para bellum (If you want peace, be prepared for war).

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Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, known as Tony Blair, is the outgoing Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland [i] is in... 

, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, Leader of the UK Labour Party, and Member of the UK Parliament for the constituency of Sedgefield in North East England North East England

North East England is one of the nine official regions of England [i] and comprises the combined area of ... 

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