Tony Blair
POLITICIAN · 33 article mentions
Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He was Leader of the Opposition from 1994 to 1997, held shadow cabinet posts from 1987 to 1994, and was Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007. He is the second-longest-serving prime minister in post-war British history after Margaret Thatcher, the longest-serving Labour politician to have held the office and the only person to lead Labour to three consecutive general election victories. Blair founded the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change in 2016 and serves as its Executive Chairman.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Blair
Wikidata: Q9545
Recent mentions
- If the UK wants to rejoin the European Union, it first needs to understand it | Timothy Garton Ash
- CBS News to hire Sky News presenter Trevor Phillips as global correspondent
- John Healey’s departure is less of a surprise than it might seem
- Is Keir Starmer trying to build a legacy or just getting on with the job?
- ‘Free of the shackles’: Michael Grade’s GB News defence raises concerns over relaxing of Ofcom rules
- Labour figures who wrote competing ‘manifestos’ join forces to warn against tribalism
- UK’s growing green economy worth more than £100bn a year, research finds
- Sunak is right that our students need financial literacy – but that shouldn’t mean yet more maths | Simon Jenkins
- UK government divided over minimum wage increase in face of youth jobs crisis
- The Campaign Diary of Robert Kenyon Aged 41 and Three-Quarters (as imagined by John Crace)