Tony Blair

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Tony Blair
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Background

• Blair was born in Edinburgh , but spent most of
  his childhood in Durham. He studied law at
  Oxford, and went on to become a barrister
  himself. After standing unsuccessfully for the
  Labour Party in a by-election, Mr Blair went on
  to win the seat of Sedgefield in the 1983 General
  Election, aged 30. He became leader of the Labour
  Party in 1994 and the Labour Party won the 1997
  General Election by a landslide Tony Blair became
  the youngest Prime Minister since Lord Liverpool
  in 1812.

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1st Term

• The 1997 general election was victorious for
  Blair, resulting in a Labour landslide and ending
  18 years of Conservative government. When Blair
  first came into power, his government began to
  implement a far-reaching programme of
  constitutional change, putting the question of
  devolution to referendums in Scotland and Wales.

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2nd Term

• Tony Blair was re-elected with another landslide
  majority in the 2001 General Election and his
  second term was dominated by foreign policy
  issues the war on terror begun with the
  September 11th attacks, and led to Blair
  supporting Bush in his invasion of Iraq despite
  popular anti-war opinion.

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3rd Term

• The Labour Party went on to win a third term for
  Mr Blair in May 2005, albeit with a reduced
  majority.
• Outside Number 10 on the day after his victory,
  the PM said that 'respect' would play a big part
  in his third term agenda.
• He said he wanted to bring back
• "A proper sense of respect in our schools, in our
  communities, in our towns and our villages