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2 days ago · 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.
1 day ago · A landslide victory in Britain for a party that hasn’t been in power since Tony Blair The next British prime minister will be Keir Starmer, from the center-left Labour Party. It was a near ...
3 days ago · Will Britain’s widely expected next Labour prime minister, Keir Starmer, be the heir to Tony Blair? Former Blair speechwriter, Philip Collins, argues 2024 is not 1997.
1 day ago · She is playing exactly the same roles as Lord John Prescott did for Blair in 1997 with the same title and department but also the symbolic role of appealing to the traditional Labour membership.
5 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 ...
4 days ago · Late on Tuesday, a poll by Survation predicted that Labour is “99 percent certain to win more seats than in 1997” when Tony Blair ended 18 years of Conservative rule.
4 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 ...
