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  ninemsn Encarta - Blair, Tony
From 1984 to 1987 Blair was opposition spokesperson on treasury and economic affairs, moving to the Trade and Industry department in 1987, Energy from 1988 to 1989, and Employment from 1989 to 1992.
At the start, major features of Blair’s policies were to respond to the globalization of trade and services, and to keep his government’s expenditure within the financial framework laid down by his predecessors.
Blair stated that it was a mandate from the British people “to deliver” on public services, and he immediately started consultations with trade union chiefs to bring in reforms that would extend public-private partnerships in the delivery of health and education.
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 Tony Blair Biography
Blair was known as a gregarious student and as the gyrating bass guitar and lead singer for a rock band called Ugly Rumors.
Blair began his political career in 1983, when he was elected to the British Parliament as a member of the Labor Party.
In 1995, Tony Blair, as the new head of the Labor Party, used his new position to strike a blow to the sacred leftist Clause IV of the Labor constitution advocating the common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange.
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 MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Tony Blair
Blair began his political career in 1983, when he was elected to the British Parliament as a member of the Labour Party.
From 1984 to 1987 Blair was opposition spokesman on treasury and economic affairs.
Blair was elected to lead the Labour Party following the death of John Smith in 1994 in the first fully democratic elections to the post.
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 Tony Blair
In April 2004, Blair announced in the House of Commons that a referendum would be held on the ratification of the future EU Constitution.
Tony Blair is married to noted barrister and QC Cherie Booth whom he met in 1976 whilst both were pupil barristers in the same Chambers.
Blair is an Anglican of the High Church or Anglo-Catholic tendency, while his wife is Roman Catholic and his children are (according to Catholic doctrine) brought up in that faith.
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 CBC News Indepth: Tony Blair
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair was born May 6, 1953, in Edinburgh, Scotland, to Leo and Hazel Blair.
Blair's new Labour caught on with the voters, and in 1997 he led the party to its biggest electoral victory ever.
According to Blair, that means the "equal worth of all citizens" and an emphasis on the individual's responsibility to the community.
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 AllRefer.com - Tony Blair (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
He was chosen as Labour's leader after the death (1994) of John Smith, and endeavored to reposition the party as a moderate center-left alternative to the Conservatives.
Internationally, Blair has worked to improve ties with other European Union nations while moving slowly on monetary union and adoption of the euro; in his first term, he also was an outspoken proponent of the use of NATO forces in the Kosovo crisis.
Despite a lack of enthusiasm for Blair's leadership style, which many regard as arrogant, voters again gave him and Labour a resounding victory at the polls in 2001, making him the first Labour prime minister to win to consecutive terms in office.
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 Tony Blair - Demopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The son of a barrister and lecturer, Tony Blair was born in Edinburgh, but spent most of his childhood in Durham.
Blair's popularity suffered heavily after the Iraq War (since when he has become known as Tony Bliar) and it has taken a dip every time he has appeared alongside George W. Bush.
Blair stayed on as Prime Minister after the Labour Party retained its majority in Parliament in the 2005 General election (although Labour lost several seats to the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats).
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 Tony Blair : Rt. Hon. Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
Blair presided over the British involvement in the Kosovo War, and was the only Prime Minister of the 20th century to sire a child while in office.
Following the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack on the World Trade Center, Blair was quick to align the UK with the US, engaging in a round of shuttle diplomacy to help form and maintain the allied coalition prior to their attack on Afghanistan (in which British troops participated).
Blair is married to successful barrister Cherie Booth[?] who he met in 1976 whilst both were studying law.
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 Tony Blair   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Blair was chosen as the candidate; he won only 10% of the vote and lost his deposit, but impressed the then Labour Party leader Michael Foot and got his name noticed within the party.
Blair made a case for war against Saddam based on Iraqi possession of weapons of mass destruction and breach of UN resolutions, but was wary of making a direct appeal for regime change.
Blair underwent a catheter ablation to correct his irregular heartbeat on 1 October, 2004, having announced the procedure the day before in a series of interviews in which he also declared that he would seek a third term but not a fourth.
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 Britannia Government: Prime Ministers - Tony Blair
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair was Labour Member of Parliament for Sedgefield and Leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons until the May 1, 1997 elections, at which time, as head of the new majority party, he became Prime Minister.
Blair was born in Edinburgh on 6 May 1953 and educated at Durham Choristers School, Fettes College, Edinburgh, and at St John's College, Oxford, where he studied law.
Blair was elected to the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party in September, 1992.
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 Encyclopedia: John Smith (UK politician)
The Right Honourable Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were, under Smith's leadership, restless and anxious in private that the party had adopted a "one more heave" approach and was overly cautious in tackling the legacy of "tax and spend".
Since Blair became leader Smith has become an icon of Labour hard left because of his traditionalist approach and the contrast between his leadership and that of Blair.
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 Astrology Software for Research - Tony Blair - astrology chart
A generation of Conservative rule ended on 5/01/1997, when Anthony Charles Lynton Blair was elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, becoming the youngest person to fill the post in 185 years.
Blair was not interested in politics during his Oxford years, his single gesture being to attend a pair of rallies against the neo-fascist National Front.
Blair was confirmed in the Anglican Church on the Oxford campus, and remains committed to MacMurray's principles.
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 CNN - Tony Blair
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair was born May 6, 1953 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and lived for three years as a child in Australia.
Blair's father was also a barrister and the younger Blair later married another barrister named Cherie Booth.
Blair won a seat in parliament in 1983 from the northern coal mining region and quickly moved up through the ranks of the Labour Party to become, in 1994, its youngest leader ever.
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 Blair Credit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
While Blair is not in any danger of losing a vote of no confidence, the falling Labour vote has renewed speculation about how long his leadership will continue.
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 Blair deeply.
Blair House is a guest house for state visitors to Washington, D.C. (in the United States of America).
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 Blair, Tony --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair was born in Edinburgh on May 6, 1953.
Blair pushed his party to the political center with a “New Labour”; agenda, which embraced a mixed economy, supported the United Kingdom's integration into the European Union, and stressed aggressive crime prevention.
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on May 6, 1953, to barrister and Conservative party campaigner Leo Blair and homemaker Hazel McLay.
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 Tony Blair
Tony Blair was first elected to Britain's House of Commons in 1983, where he served on various shadow cabinets of the Labour party for the next decade.
Blair's deft dismantling of Labour's long-time commitments drew opposition from liberal Britain (Tony Blur and Tory Blair being two of their favorite epithets) but elicited promising results from the ballots: the Labour party won 250 of 258 townships in 1995 municipal elections.
Cherie Booth, Blair's wife, is a distinguished lawyer and the child of actor Tony Booth.
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 CNN - Blair hopes voters will opt for change - 1997 UK Elections
The champion of the traditional working class party, Blair favors pinstriped suits, and shares a gentrified Victorian house in North London with a senior barrister -- his intelligent, ambitious wife Cherie (Booth) -- and their three children.
Born Anthony Charles Lynton Blair in Edinburgh, Scotland, 43 years ago, Labour's leader grew up in Australia and Durham, England, before going to boarding school in Edinburgh.
Blair joined the Labour Party in 1975, and worked as a barrister for several years in London.
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 Overview of Anthony (Tony) Charles Lynton Blair   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Blair built on Smith's efforts to modernise his party and restore its appeal to mainstream voters, who had deserted Labour as it drifted to the left, resulting in its defeat at the polls in 1979.
Blair's efforts resulted in a landslide victory in the 1997 general election and his appointment as Prime Minister.
Blair was the first Prime Minister's in more than 150 years to become a father while in office, when his wife gave birth to their fourth child in 2000.
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 BLAIR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair is the son of Leo Blair, a barrister and a Tory.
Leo was the son of Charles Parsons and Gussie Bridson.
Blair is a committed Christian so he always turns the other cheek, does not judge others and loves everybody.
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 Tony Blair politics BP Lama Jyotisha   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Blair's radix chart features the signature strong Shani which is characteristic of world leaders.
Blair's father Leo was a working lawyer and university law professor, province of dharma bhava.
Blair met his wife, the amazingly intelligent and accomplished Cherie Booth (who had graduated at the top of her class at the London School of Economics) in Law School.
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 Guardian Unlimited Books | Extracts | Anthony Blair, Captain of School
The Blair family was of modest origins, owing its position in society entirely to his father, who had by dint of study and application exchanged the narrow world of the counting-house for the broad vistas of the law.
Blair was still admiring the scene when the train plunged suddenly into a tunnel and he was forced to close the window to keep out a cloud of smoke and cinders.
Blair came from a small cathedral school where fagging was unknown, but he had read enough about public school life in boys' magazines to know what was required.
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 John O'Sullivan on Tony Blair on National Review Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Blair's current troubles stem from the fact that he is hated and despised by his own party — the blend of socialist Old Labor that survives from the past and reformist New Labor that he helped to create in the last decade.
Whatever the explanation, Blair is now acting with an almost reckless abandon in outraging his party on several fronts simultaneously — and defiantly attacking the "peace" marchers who mobilized about a million protesters last weekend.
Blair's parliamentary majority is so large at 165 that it would require a revolt by almost one quarter of the 410 Labor MPs to threaten it.
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 BBC - h2g2 - Tony Blair - a Profile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Born Anthony Charles Lynton Blair on 6 May 1953 in Edinburgh to Leo Charles Lynton Blair and Hazel Blair.
Blair set out to modernise a party that had been in opposition for 15 years.
Blair's leadership of the country to date could be considered a success in many areas.
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