
Tony Blair
Born May 6, 1953 · Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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.
Notable Appearances
Movies

Official Secrets

Fahrenheit 9/11

Chinese Box

Brexit: The Uncivil War

Iris

The 90s: Ten Years That Changed the World

British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves

Queen Elizabeth II: Her Story, Our Century

Heist: The Northern Bank Robbery

Hero With A Thousand Faces

The Class of ‘92

England 2006: The Golden Generation

La Traversée du désir

HyperNormalisation

Litvinenko: The Mayfair Poisoning

30 Years of Democracy

How to Be an Ex-Prime Minister

James Blunt: One Brit Wonder

How to Win the US Presidency

Echolalia

The New Ten Commandments

How to Win the TV Debate

Speeches That Shook the World

Countdown to Zero

We Are Many

Viral: Antisemitism in Four Mutations

Shadow World
TV Shows

maybrit illner

Question Time

The Last Leg

GMTV

Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

Dispatches

Skavlan

Parkinson

Newscast

Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War

Soccer Aid

The Century of the Self

Amol Rajan Interviews

The Blair Years

Live Aid at 40: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took on the World

Attack on London: Hunting the 7/7 Bombers

The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom

Lockerbie

The Tony Blair Story

The Agreement

Once Upon a Time in Iraq

7/7: The London Bombings

The Wilderness Years

Endgame in Ireland

Blair and Brown: The New Labour Revolution

La última llamada

The Rise and Fall of Tony Blair
More Movies

The World According To Bush

Being Jacques Chirac

Athens 2004: Olympic Opening Ceremony (Games of the XXVIII Olympiad)

In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America

Born to be The King

Leading to War

The Downing Street Patient

Merkel

Her Majesty's Prime Ministers: John Major

A Tribute to Her Majesty the Queen

Trust Me - I'm a Politician

Diana: The People's Princess

Celsius 41.11

Clinton: His Struggle with Dirt

Dunblane: How Britain Banned Handguns

David Attenborough: A Life on Earth

Fogh bag facaden

The New Watchdogs

Everything's Cool

Brexit: The Clock Is Ticking

Putin's Witnesses

The Proclamation of HM the King

Liam Gallagher: Knebworth 22

Ever Again

Queen Elizabeth II: Above All Else

Unconstitutional: The War On Our Civil Liberties

VM-krönika 1998

Live Forever

De strijd van Kok

Nail Bomber: Manhunt

Kongehusets troløse butler

The Killing$ of Tony Blair

Things We Won't Say About Race That Are True

From Beaconsfield to Baghdad

Taking Liberties

News From Number 10

Being W

Age of Dissent

Party Election Broadcast for the Labour Party

Sergio

Cabinet Confidential

Under the Knife

Working for Labour

The Dunblane Tapes

In Search of Tony Blair




