Once, when caught misbehaving at school, I was given the choice of serving one hour's detention or writing an essay about the inside of a ping-pong ball. It wasn't obvious then, but writing about the inside of the ball was good practice for covering Tony Blair's election campaign from...
The Blair Labour government was elected at UK General Election of May 1, 1997. The Labour Party had a landslide victory, winning 418 seats to the Conservative Party’s 165, with the Liberal Democrats on 46. Blair served as prime minister for 10 years, winning two more elections in 2001 an...
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...
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, 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....
Abstract 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,...
It was Tony Blair who punctured the decade long winning streak of the opposition and was a prominent labour leader in English political history. Learn more about his life, rise and fall from political power, and his administration's impact on foreign and domestic policy. ...
新英国 After 18 years in opposition,the Labour Party succeeded in winning the 1997 election and Tony Blair( 托尼·布莱尔) became Prime Minister of the United King... 布莱尔 - 新英国 被引量: 120发表: 1998年 加载更多 来源期刊 中国证券期货 研究点推荐 工业革命 经济遗产 ...
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...
party toward the centre, but only in 1997 didTony Blairand his “New Labour” agenda succeed in returning Labour to power. Labour governed for 13 years (with Blair as prime minister until 2007, when he was succeeded by Gordon Brown) before losing its majority in the 2010 general election....