| Name |
Anthony
Charles Lynton Blair |
| Nick
Name |
Bambi |
| Profession |
Politician,
Barrister |
| Date
of Birth |
6
May 1953 |
| Birth
Place |
Edinburg,
United Kingdom |
| Nationality |
British |
| Education |
Durham
Choristers School, Fettess college and studied law
in St. John's College, Oxford |
| Spent
his childhood |
Durham |
| Family |
- Father:
Leo Charles Lynton Blair
- Mother:
Hazel Blair
- Wife:
Cherie Blair
- Sons:
Euan, Nicky, Leo
- Daughter:
Kathryn
- Father-in-law:Tony
Booth
|
| Father's
profession |
Was
a lecturer and a barrister |
| Wife's
profession |
Cherie
Blair is a barrister herself |
| Marriage |
Married
on 29 march 1980 |
| Faith |
Anglican
of the High Church or Anglo-Catholic tendency, while
his wife is Roman Catholic |
| Lost |
Conservative
seat of Beaconsfield in 1982 |
| First
victory |
won
the seat of Sedgefield in the 1983 General Election
|
| Started
with Labour |
Joined
the Labour Party after graduation in 1975 |
| Guide |
Tom
Pendry, a Labour MP initially guided him into
politics |
| His
ascent |
- 1984
was promoted first to the shadow Treasury front
bench.
- 1988
he served as a trade and industry spokesman,
he was made Shadow Secretary of State for Energy.
- 1989
he moved to the employment brief.
- 1992
election Labour's new leader, John Smith, promoted
him to Shadow Home Secretary.
- 21
July 1994 the Labour Party Electoral College
elected him as Party Leader.
- 1997
became the youngest Prime Minister.
- 2001
was reelected
- 2005
relected
|
| Coined
the term |
New
Labour |
| Supports |
George
W.Bush, US president in his War on Terror |
| War
against terror |
Sent
British forces to participate in the 2003 Invasion
of Iraq and post-war reconstruction. Also British
troops are Afghanistan, Kosovo and Sierra
Leone |
| Music |
In
his college years he played guitar and sang for
a rock band called Ugly Rumours. |
| Was
a great fan of |
Mike
Jaggers |
| First
campaign trail |
was
helped by Patricia Phoenix, the girlfriend of his
father-in-law Anthony Booth. |
| His
first platform speech |
was
a disastrous embarrassment in October 1990 when
he spoke too fast and lost his place in his notes |
| Defeated |
John
Major in the 1997 UK general election. |
| Top
Priority |
education,
education, education |
| Question
hour |
replaced
the two weekly 15 minute sessions held on a Tuesday
and Thursday, with a single 30 minute session on
a Wednesday |
| Worst
subject in school |
Science
|
| Club
Membership |
Trindon
Colliery and Deaf Hill Working Men's, Constituency
Labour (Trindon); Fishburn Working Men's
|
| Regular
event |
Swimming
after Church on Sunday mornings |
| Likes
to read |
literary
classics and biographies |
| Spends
his leisure time |
watching
thrillers, playing tennis and playing his guitar. |
| Enjoys |
Watching
Simpsons with his children |
| Conviction |
the
decision to liberate Iraq from a tyrant like Saddam
Hussein was the right one. |
| Controversies |
- Euan
Blair hit the headlines after police found him
"drunk and incapable" in Leicester
Square, London while out celebrating the end
of his GCSE exams in July 2000, just days after
his father had proposed on-the-spot fines for
drunken and yobbish behaviour.
- Leo
Blair became a focal point for a debate over
the MMR vaccine when Tony Blair refused to confirm
whether his son had received the controversial
treatment.
|
| Facts |
- At
the age of 43 , Tony Blair became the youngest
Prime Minister since Lord Liverpool in 1812.
- His
youngest son, Leo, was the first child born
to a serving Prime Minister in over 150 years.
- Is
the 51st Prime Minister of Labour Party into
power after 18 consecutive years of Conservative
government.
- His
father Leo Blair had ambitions to stand for
Parliament in Durham but was thwarted when he
had a stroke when Blair was 11, an event which
affected him deeply.
- While
enrolled as a pupil barrister and met his future
wife, Cherie Booth, at the Chambers of Derry
Irvine, also a future Lord Chancellor.
- Hazel
Blair died at 52 after battling a cancer of
the thyroid for five years.
- was
called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1976 and
practised as a barrister until 1983, specializing
in employment and industrial law.
|
| His
famous pledge |
Labour
would be tough on crime, tough on the causes of
crime' (coined by his close friend and ally Gordon
Brown) |
| Major
reforms |
-
An elected post of Mayor of London was established
at the head of a new capital-wide authority,
- All
but 92 hereditary peers were removed from the
House of Lords in the first stage of its reform.
- His
government also implemented an investment programme
of £42 billion in its priority areas of health
and education.
|
| On
power |
"Power
without principle is barren, but principle without
power is futile. This is a party of government,
and I will lead it as a party of government."
|
| Politics |
"I
didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party.
I came into politics to change the country." |
| Leadership |
"The
art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very
easy to say yes." |
| September
11 attacks |
"As
for those that carried out these attacks, there
are no adequate words of condemnation. Their barbarism
will stand as their shame for all eternity." |
| Address |
10
Downing Street,
London,
SW1A 2AA |
| Fax
no |
020
7925 0918 within UK
+442079250918 outside UK |
| Quote |
"Education
is the best economic policy there is."
|
