Media: The truth about Rupert and Tony Tony Blair famously wooed Rupert Murdoch before the 1997 election. But, as this exclusive extract from a controversial new book by Neil Chenoweth shows, there was a price to payIn March 1998, three separate disasters had come together to produce a ...
In the 1997 general-election campaign, "Education, Education" was Tony Blair"s pet phrase. Time changes quickly. Education is going rapidly out of fashion. "Learning" (to be exact, "lifelong learning" ) is New Labour"s new buzzword (时髦语). The shift from "education" to "learning" ...
On 4 May 1997, together with a small group of friends I hosted a street party to celebrate the Labour victory in the election. Gordon Brown and many other prospective members of the new government were there. Tony Blair didn’t come, pleading exhaustion after the tension of the preceding fe...
Tony Blair, 2001, by Jonathan Yeo While googling about I came across this much earlier portrait of the former PM (right). Painted by Jonathan Yeo, it was completed during the general election of 2001 and shows a younger, but for that period an unusually serious Blair. I rather like it....
Blair, 61, won a landslide victory in a 1997 general election, and was the head of a left-leaning Labour Party government for the next decade. His time in office saw the introduction of civil partnerships, the lowering of the homosexual age of consent to match that of straight couples...
Tony Blair was elected Leader of the Labour Party in July 1994 following the sudden death of his predecessor, John Smith. Under Blair's leadership the party abandoned many policies that it had held for decades. Labour won a landslide victory in the 1997 general election, which ended 18 years...
Assessing the legacy of Tony Blair is a complex task. A successful Labour Party leader from 1994, Blair became prime minister in 1997 amid an electoral landslide. By 2001, that landslide had become more apathetic and in 2005, Blair’s third election victory was accompanied by unease, a notabl...
Explore Prime Minister Tony Blair's rise to power in our 5-minute video lesson on his election and policies. Explore the impact of his tenure and take a quiz!
Tony Blair. Actor: The Force of Nature. 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. On his resignation he was appointed Specia
Blair, who was Britain's prime minister from 1997 to 2007, backed the NATO bombing of Serbia to force it to withdraw from Kosovo. Many supporters later became disillusioned with Blair over Britain's subsequent role in the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, but many people in Kosovo ...