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    1 day ago · e. Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair KG (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. He was Leader of the Opposition from 1994 to 1997 and held various shadow cabinet posts from 1987 to 1994. Blair was Member of Parliament (MP) for ...

  2. 4 days ago · So it was quite a turnaround when Labour, under the leadership of the youthful Tony Blair, won the May 1, 1997 general election by a landslide. “New Labour, New Britain” was the party’s slogan, and “Things can only get better” by D-ream was its theme song. Under Blair, Labour won a majority of 179 seats, even bigger than the party’s ...

  3. 1 day ago · On May 2, 1997 Tony Blair walked into Downing Street after the Labour Party won a historic landslide victory against the Conservatives. Fast forward to 2024, Sir Keir Starmer has repeated history ...

  4. 3 days ago · As the minister for housing and then local government in Tony Blair’s cabinet, she found herself one of a core group tasked with ramming through one of the PM’s most passionate policies: putting an end to rough sleeping. Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is on track to be in government by 5 July.

  5. 1 day ago · This is a summary of the electoral history of Tony Blair, 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 the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007.

  6. 1 day ago · Former Chief of Staff to Tony Blair, Jonathan Powell says: 'You have the maximum political capital when you are elected with a big landslide like this, and that political capital goes down over time.'

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  8. 3 days ago · Tony Blair himself held a 53-point vote majority in Sedgefield. In 2024, these are likely to be narrower gains with more substantial majorities won by Labour in the bigger cities of the North of ...