Tony Blair

Posted by admin

Date: April 13, 2015

in: Celebrities, Dignitaries

Leave a comment

share

0 0 0 0

Name	Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
Nick Name	Bambi
Profession	Politician, Barrister
Date of Birth	6 May 1953
Birth Place	Edinburg, United Kingdom
Nationality	British
Education	Durham Choristers School, Fettess college and studied law in St. John’s College, Oxford
Spent his childhood	Durham
Family	Father: Leo Charles Lynton Blair Mother: Hazel Blair Wife: Cherie Blair Sons: Euan, Nicky, Leo Daughter: Kathryn Father-in-law:Tony Booth
Father’s profession	Was a lecturer and a barrister
Wife’s profession	Cherie Blair is a barrister herself
Marriage	Married on 29 march 1980
Faith	Anglican of the High Church or Anglo-Catholic tendency, while his wife is Roman Catholic
Lost	Conservative seat of Beaconsfield in 1982
First victory	won the seat of Sedgefield in the 1983 General Election
Started with Labour	Joined the Labour Party after graduation in 1975
Guide	Tom Pendry, a Labour MP initially guided him  into politics
His ascent	1984 was promoted first to the shadow Treasury front bench. 1988 he served as a trade and industry spokesman,  he was made Shadow Secretary of State for Energy. 1989 he moved to the employment brief. 1992 election Labour’s new leader, John Smith, promoted him to Shadow Home Secretary. 21 July 1994 the Labour Party Electoral College elected him as Party Leader. 1997 became the youngest Prime Minister. 2001 was  reelected 2005 relected
Coined the term	New Labour
Supports	George W.Bush, US president in his War on Terror
War against terror	Sent British forces to participate in the 2003 Invasion of Iraq and post-war reconstruction. Also British troops are  Afghanistan, Kosovo and Sierra Leone
Music	In his college years he played guitar and sang for a rock band called Ugly Rumours.
Was a great fan of	Mike Jaggers
First campaign trail	was helped by Patricia Phoenix, the girlfriend of his father-in-law Anthony Booth.
His first platform speech	was a disastrous embarrassment in October 1990 when he spoke too fast and lost his place in his notes
Defeated	John Major in the 1997 UK general election.
Top Priority	education, education, education
Question hour	replaced the two weekly 15 minute sessions held on a Tuesday and Thursday, with a single 30 minute session on a Wednesday
Worst subject in school	Science
Club Membership	Trindon Colliery and Deaf Hill Working Men’s, Constituency Labour (Trindon); Fishburn Working Men’s
Regular event	Swimming after Church on Sunday mornings
Likes to read	literary classics and biographies
Spends his leisure time	watching thrillers, playing tennis and playing his guitar.
Enjoys	Watching Simpsons with his children
Conviction	the decision to liberate Iraq from a tyrant like Saddam Hussein was the right one.
Controversies	Euan Blair hit the headlines after police found him “drunk and incapable” in Leicester Square, London while out celebrating the end of his GCSE exams in July 2000, just days after his father had proposed on-the-spot fines for drunken and yobbish behaviour. Leo Blair became a focal point for a debate over the MMR vaccine when Tony Blair refused to confirm whether his son had received the controversial treatment.
Facts	At the age of 43 , Tony Blair became the youngest Prime Minister since Lord Liverpool in 1812. His  youngest son, Leo, was the first child born to a serving Prime Minister in over 150 years. Is the 51st Prime Minister of Labour Party into power after 18 consecutive years of Conservative government. His father 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 him deeply. While enrolled as a pupil barrister and met his future wife, Cherie Booth, at the Chambers of Derry Irvine, also a future Lord Chancellor. Hazel Blair died at 52 after battling a cancer of the thyroid for five years. was called to the Bar at Lincoln’s Inn in 1976 and practised as a barrister until 1983, specializing in employment and industrial law.
His famous pledge	Labour would be tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime’ (coined by his close friend and ally Gordon Brown)
Major reforms	An elected post of Mayor of London was established at the head of a new capital-wide authority, All but 92 hereditary peers were removed from the House of Lords in the first stage of its reform. His  government also implemented an investment programme of £42 billion in its priority areas of health and education.
On power	“Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.”
Politics	“I didn’t come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.”
Leadership	“The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.”
September 11 attacks	“As for those that carried out these attacks, there are no adequate words of condemnation. Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.”
Address	10 Downing Street, London, SW1A 2AA
Fax no	020 7925 0918 within UK +442079250918 outside UK
Quote	“Education is the best economic policy there is.”

“

About The Author

admin

Momizat Team specialize in designing WordPress themes ... Momizat Team specialize in designing WordPress themes