Tony Blair

Tony Blair

Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born May 6, 1953) is a former British Labour Party politician, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom May 2, 1997 to June 27, 2007. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He resigned those positions in June 2007.

Blair was elected leader of the Labour leadership election in July 1994 after the sudden death of his predecessor, John Smith. Under his leadership, the party has adopted as "New Labour" and moved away from traditional left his position to the middle. Blair eventually led Labour to a landslide election in 1997. At 43, he became the youngest prime minister since Lord Liverpool in 1812. In the early years of the New Labour Blair government ran a series of 1997 manifesto promises, the introduction of the minimum wage, the Human Rights Act and the Freedom of Information Act, and implementing decentralization, the creation of Scottish Parliament, National Assembly for Wales and Northern Ireland Assembly.

Role of Blair as Prime Minister was particularly evident in foreign policy and security, including in Northern Ireland, where he was involved in the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. Since the beginning of the war on terrorism in 2001, Blair strongly supported the foreign policy of President George W. US Bush, including participation in the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan and 2003 invasion of Iraq. The oldest Labour Party Prime Minister Tony Blair, the only person who directed the work of three consecutive election victories, and the only Labour prime minister to serve consecutive sentences of more than one, there were at least four long years .

He was replaced as leader of the Labour Party 24 June 2007 and as prime minister June 27, 2007 by Gordon Brown. The day he resigned as premier, he was appointed special envoy of the Quartet for the Middle East. In May 2008, Blair launched his Faith Foundation Tony Blair. It was followed in July 2009 at the launch of the Faith and Globalization Initiative at Yale University, the University of Durham in Britain and the National University of Singapore in Asia to offer a graduate program in collaboration with Institute.