Tony Blair
Acting
- Born:
- 1953-05-06
- Place of birth:
- Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Biography
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a former British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 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 from all of these positions in June 2007. Tony Blair was elected Leader of the Labour Party in the leadership election of July 1994, following the sudden death of his predecessor, John Smith. Under his leadership, the party adopted the term "New Labour" and moved away from its traditional left wing position towards the centre ground. Blair subsequently led Labour to a landslide victory in the 1997 general election. At 43 years old, he became the youngest Prime Minister since Lord Liverpool in 1812. In the first years of the New Labour government, Blair's government implemented a number of 1997 manifesto pledges, introducing the minimum wage, Human Rights Act and Freedom of Information Act, and carrying out devolution, establishing the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales, and the Northern Ireland Assembly. Blair's role as Prime Minister was particularly visible in foreign and security policy, including in Northern Ireland, where he was involved in the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. From the start of the War on Terror in 2001, Blair strongly supported the foreign policy of US President George W. Bush, notably by participating in the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan and 2003 invasion of Iraq. Blair is the Labour Party's longest-serving Prime Minister, the only person to have led the Labour Party to three consecutive general election victories, and the only Labour Prime Minister to serve consecutive terms more than one of which was at least four years long. He was succeeded as Leader of the Labour Party on 24 June 2007 and as Prime Minister on 27 June 2007 by Gordon Brown. On the day he resigned as Prime Minister, he was appointed the official Envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East. In May 2008, Blair launched his Tony Blair Faith Foundation. This was followed in July 2009 by the launching of the Faith and Globalisation Initiative with Yale University in the USA, Durham University in the UK and the National University of Singapore in Asia to deliver a postgraduate programme in partnership with the Foundation.
Known For
Filmography
Damilola Taylor: The Untold Story
England 2006: The Golden Generation
Queen Elizabeth II: Her Story, Our Century
Dunblane: How Britain Banned Handguns
The Dunblane Tapes
The Tony Blair Story
La última llamada
Live Aid at 40: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took on the World
Attack on London: Hunting the 7/7 Bombers
7/7: The London Bombings
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
David Attenborough: A Life on Earth
James Blunt: One Brit Wonder
Lockerbie
Troubles and Peace
The Agreement
Her Majesty's Prime Ministers: John Major
Litvinenko: The Mayfair Poisoning
Merkel
Liam Gallagher: Knebworth 22
Born to be The King
The Proclamation of HM the King
A Tribute to Her Majesty the Queen
Queen Elizabeth II: Above All Else
Blair and Brown: The New Labour Revolution
Heist: The Northern Bank Robbery
Amol Rajan Interviews
Endgame in Ireland
Nail Bomber: Manhunt
Once Upon a Time in Iraq
Viral: Antisemitism in Four Mutations
Newscast
30 Years of Democracy
Under the Knife
Official Secrets
Brexit: The Clock Is Ticking
Brexit: The Uncivil War
Putin's Witnesses
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America
Diana: The People's Princess
VICE Special Report: A World in Disarray
Hero With A Thousand Faces
HyperNormalisation
Shadow World
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
How to Win the US Presidency
The Killing$ of Tony Blair
Brexageddon?!
De strijd van Kok
The 90s: Ten Years That Changed the World
Things We Won't Say About Race That Are True
We Are Many
The Class of ‘92
Newsflash: Stories That Stopped the World
Speeches That Shook the World
Sir David Frost: That Was the Life That Was
Margaret Thatcher: Prime Minister
The Last Leg
The New Watchdogs
How to Win the TV Debate
Countdown to Zero
La Traversée du désir
Sergio
Skavlan
Being W
Gary's War
Leading to War
The New Ten Commandments
The Blair Years
How to Be an Ex-Prime Minister
The Rise and Fall of Tony Blair
From Beaconsfield to Baghdad
The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom
Taking Liberties
Everything's Cool
Ever Again
Being Jacques Chirac
Soccer Aid
The Queen at 80
The Man Who Broke Britain
Celsius 41.11
Unconstitutional: The War On Our Civil Liberties
Parkinson
Athens 2004: Olympic Opening Ceremony (Games of the XXVIII Olympiad)
Fahrenheit 9/11
In Search of Tony Blair
The World According To Bush
The Downing Street Patient
Fogh bag facaden
Live Forever
Trust Me - I'm a Politician
Echolalia
The Day That Shook the World
The Century of the Self
Second Coming
Iris
Cabinet Confidential
News From Number 10
maybrit illner
Working for Labour
VM-krönika 1998
Clinton: His Struggle with Dirt
Sabine Christiansen
Chinese Box
Party Election Broadcast for the Labour Party
A Word in the Right Ear
The Daily Show
The Wilderness Years
Age of Dissent
GMTV
The Simpsons
Dispatches
Wogan
Question Time
Panorama
When the Windsors Met the Bushes
Kongehusets troløse butler