Tony blair biography born

Sir Anthony Charles Lynton "Tony" Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007. He was Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007 and Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007.

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On the day he stood down as Prime Minister and MP, he was made official Envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East on behalf of the United Nations, the European Union, the United States and Russia.^[1]

Blair was elected Leader of the Labour Party in the 1994 leadership election following the sudden death of his predecessor, John Smith.

Under Blair's leadership the party abandoned many policies it had held for decades. Labour won a landslide victory in the 1997 general election, which ended 18 years of Conservative rule with the heaviest Conservative defeat since 1832.^[2]

He was the Labour Party's longest-serving Prime Minister and the only leader to have taken the party to three uni Margaret Thatcher SAVO