Who is Tony Blair

Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) 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 Special Envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East, a diplomatic post which he held until 2015. He has been the executive chairman of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change since 2016. As prime minister, many of his policies reflected a centrist "Third Way" political philosophy. He is one of only two Labour leaders to form three majority governments, the other being Harold Wilson.

Blair was born in Edinburgh. After attending the independent school Fettes College, he studied law at St John's College, Oxford, and became a barrister. He became involved in ...
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Tony Blair Quotes

• The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
• My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.
• I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.
• My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.
• Education is the best economic policy there is.

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Comments about Tony Blair

• Osetechf: let's not forget that tony blair who's now pushing for digital passports is a war criminal and belongs behind bars for the genocide in iraq. this monster needs to be called out for murdering over a million iraqis each time he enters a room, the amount of blood on this guy's hands
• Ninabrooke8: why princess diana really snubbed elton john months before her death.
• Konsas_city_mab: tony blair beginning to resemble the crypt keeper, which is nice
• Thedreadvampy: it literally obsesses me that at this point labour's entire pitch for existing is "hey remember that brief patch in the 90s when everyone loved tony blair? why aren't you voting for us????"
• Chriseshair4u: lee anderson vs steve bray round eight

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