Tony Blair
Statesman, Politician
1953 –
Who is Tony Blair?
Anthony Charles Lynton "Tony" Blair is a British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007. He was the Member of Parliament for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. Blair led Labour to a landslide victory in the 1997 general election, winning 418 seats, the most the party has ever held. The party went on to win two more elections under his leadership, in 2001 and 2005, with a significantly reduced majority in the latter.
Blair was elected Labour Party leader in the leadership election of July 1994, following the sudden death of his predecessor, John Smith. Under his leadership, the party used the phrase "New Labour" to distance it from previous Labour policies. Blair declared opposition to the traditional conception of socialism, and declared support for a new conception that he referred to as "social-ism", involving politics that recognised individuals as socially interdependent, and advocated social justice, cohesion, equal worth of each citizen, and equal opportunity. Critics of Blair denounced him for having the Labour Party abandon genuine socialism and accepting capitalism.
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- Born
- May 6, 1953
Edinburgh - Also known as
- Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
- Rt. Hon. Tony Blair
- Prime Minister Tony Blair
- Tony Blair MP
- Tony Bliar
- Teflon Tony
- Phoney Tony
- アントニー・チャールズ・リントン・ブレア
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Cherie Blair
(1980/03/29 - )
- Cherie Blair
- Children
- Religion
- Anglicanism
- Catholicism
- Church of England
- Anglo-Catholicism
- Ethnicity
- Scottish people
- Nationality
- Scotland
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts, St John's College, Oxford
Jurisprudence
( - 1976) - Fettes College
- Chorister School, Durham
- University of Oxford
- Bachelor of Arts, St John's College, Oxford
- Lived in
- Edinburgh
- Connaught Square
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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