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TONY (ANTHONY CHARLES LYNTON) BLAIR
Prime Minister of Great Britain
Assumption of the office: 1997
Date of birth: May 6, 1953 Place of birth: Edinburgh, Scotland Family status: Married / three sons and a daughter |
| Occupation: | In 1976, he graduated from St. John’s College of Oxford University where he studied law. He practiced law in the field of trade union law and labour relations. |
| Career: | He joined the Labour Party in 1975.
In May 1982, he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the House of Commons in Beaconsfield county but received only 10 percent of all votes. In 1983, he was elected to the House of Commons from Sedgefield. In 1984-1994, he was a member of the Shadow Cabinet of the Labour Party. In succession he was in charge of financial and economic issues, trade and industry, power engineering, employment and home affairs. In 1987-1988, he combined his political career with journalism, and worked as a columnist for The Times. After the sudden death of Labour leader John Smith in 1994, Tony Blair headed the Labour Party and became the leader of the parliamentary opposition at the same time. In 1997, he led the Labour Party to a landslide victory in the General Election and became Prime Minister. The Labour Party gained another convincing victory at the General Election in 2001 and 2005.
Tony Blair is married to Cherie Blair since 1980 and has three sons and a daughter. |
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