Who is Tony Blair?
Tony Blair was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for ten years from 1997 to 2007. He became Prime Minister at the age of 43 and is noted for being the United Kingdom’s youngest PM since 1812. Tony Blair was a member of the Labour Party for twenty-two years before becoming Prime Minister. Tony Blair was born 6 May 1953 in Edinburgh, Scotland, as Anthony Charles Lynton Blair. His family was financially well-off and Tony Blair’s father, Leo Charles Lynton Blair, was also a politician. Tony Blair attended top schools such as Fettes College in Edinburgh and St. John’s College in Oxford. In college, Blair realized that he didn’t care much for science, but he did enjoy music and was the lead singer of a band called Ugly Rumors. Tony Blair joined the United Kingdom’s Labour Party in 1975 and became a lawyer in 1976. He married Cherie Booth in 1980 and they had four children. Elected as Sedgefield’s Member of Parliament (MP) in 1983, Tony Blair became the Assistant Spokesman on Treasury in 1
Tony BlairHe has been called everything from “an inferior Bill Clinton” to “as divisive a figure as Thatcher.” His record in the Middle East has been described as one of “catastrophic failure,” and his mistakes have been attributed to “stupendous moral vanity.” He has been called a success, a failure, lucky, and unfortunate. “Tony Blair: A Modern Tragedy” is the title of the Spectator magazine’s special 36-page end-of-Blair supplement. Yet during the onslaught of political obituaries that have appeared in Britain since his long-awaited resignation speech last week, “You wait, you’ll be sorry when they’re gone” was a sentiment quite frequently expressed about Blair and his wife, Cherie Booth.
by Stanley Zir and Phil Orenstein June 6, 2003 Everyone would love to be the recipient of a one million dollar check until they find out it is a forgery. Such is the nature of the present negotiations, where Israel is making concessions for fools gold. First Tony Blair and now George Bush and Ariel Sharon are telling the whole world to invest in security bonds that will be worthless in 2005. Until that time, Abu Mazen, the new Palestinian Prime Minister, and his cohorts know that keeping any promises for just a couple of months is only a minor inconvenience, for soon they will be free to act with impunity. You havent heard too much from Tony Blair these days, but recently he popped up in Iraq right after the Road Map agreement was reached by President Bush and Prime Minister Sharon. Why is this significant? It started almost two months before the war against Iraq. At the time, Israel thinking they are in the clear, the United Nations and the majority of its supporters had finally been
