Tony Blair

The Right Honourable Sir Tony Blair KG
Blair in 2010
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
In office 2 May 1997 – 27 June 2007
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Deputy	John Prescott
Preceded by	John Major
Succeeded by	Gordon Brown
Leader of the Opposition
In office 21 July 1994 – 2 May 1997
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Prime Minister	John Major
Deputy	John Prescott
Preceded by	Margaret Beckett
Succeeded by	John Major
Leader of the Labour Party
In office 21 July 1994 – 24 June 2007
Deputy	John Prescott
General Secretary	Tom Sawyer Margaret McDonagh David Triesman Matt Carter Peter Watt
Chairman	Charles Clarke John Reid Ian McCartney Hazel Blears
Preceded by	John Smith
Succeeded by	Gordon Brown
Shadow Cabinet positions Shadow Home Secretary In office 24 July 1992 – 24 October 1994 Leader John Smith Margaret Beckett (acting) Himself Preceded by Roy Hattersley Succeeded by Jack Straw Shadow Secretary of State for Employment In office 2 November 1989 – 24 July 1992 Leader Neil Kinnock Preceded by Michael Meacher Succeeded by Frank Dobson Shadow Secretary of State for Energy In office 23 November 1988 – 2 November 1989 Leader Neil Kinnock Preceded by John Prescott Succeeded by Frank Dobson Shadow Minister for Trade In office 13 July 1987 – 23 November 1988 Leader Neil Kinnock Preceded by Bryan Gould Succeeded by Robin Cook
Member of Parliament for Sedgefield
In office 9 June 1983 – 27 June 2007
Preceded by	Constituency created[nb]
Succeeded by	Phil Wilson
Personal details
Born	Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (1953-05-06) 6 May 1953 (age 71) Edinburgh, Scotland
Political party	Labour
Spouse(s)	Cherie Booth ​ (m. 1980)​
Children	4
Parents	Leo Blair (father)
Relatives	William Blair (brother)
Education	Chorister School Fettes College
Alma mater	St John's College, Oxford Inns of Court
Website	Institute for Global Change
n.b. ^ Electorate abolished on 28 February 1974 and reconstituted on 8 June 1983.

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. 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 uninterrupted general election victories.

Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer during all Blair's ten years in office, succeeded him as party leader and Prime Minister in 2007.^[3]

1. ↑ "Blair becomes Middle East envoy". BBC News. BBC. 27 June 2007. Retrieved 27 June 2007.
2. ↑ Kingdom, John (April 2003). Government and Politics in Britain: An Introduction (3rd ed.). Polity Press. pp. 299. ISBN 978-0745625942.
3. ↑ "Brown is UK's new prime minister". BBC News. BBC. 27 June 2007. Retrieved 27 June 2007.