Tony Blair Signed Auto Index Card Former Prime Minster Of The UK COA

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Tony Blair Signed Auto Index Card Former Prime Minster Of The UK COA:
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Anthony Charles Lynton Blair,PC(born 6 May 1953), commonly calledTony Blair, is a British politician who served as thePrime Minister of the United Kingdomfrom 1997 to 2007 and theLeaderof theLabour Partyfrom 1994 to 2007. Together with PresidentGeorge W. Bushin 2003, he initiated theIraq Warwith theinvasion of Iraq, an act which remains highly controversial.

From 1983 to 2007, Blair was theMember of ParliamentforSedgefield. He was elected Labour Party leader inJuly 1994, following the sudden death of his predecessor,John Smith, who together with his predecessor,Neil Kinnock, had started to move the party closer to the political centre, in order to win power. Under Blair\'s leadership, the party used the phrase \"New Labour\", to distance it from previous Labour policies and the traditional conception ofsocialism. Blair declared support for a new conception that he referred to as \"social-ism\", involving politics that recognised individuals as socially interdependent, and advocated social justice, cohesion, equal worth of each citizen, and equal opportunity.Critics of Blair denounced him for having the Labour Party abandon genuine socialism and acceptingcapitalism.Supporters, including the party\'s public opinion pollsterPhilip Gould, stated that after four consecutive general election defeats, the Labour Party had to demonstrate that it had made a decisive break from its left-wing past, in order to win an election again.

In May 1997, the Labour Party won a landslide general election victory, the largest in its history, allowing Blair, at 43 years old, to become the youngest Prime Minister sinceLord Liverpoolin 1812. In September 1997, Blair attained early personal popularity, receiving a 93% public approval rating, after his public response to the death ofDiana, Princess of Wales.The Labour Party went on to win two more elections under his leadership: in2001, in which it won another landslide victory, and in2005, with a reduced majority. In the first years of the New Labour government, Blair\'s government introduced theNational Minimum Wage Act,Human Rights Act, andFreedom of Information Act. Blair\'s government also carried out thedevolution, the establishing of theScottish Parliament, theNational Assembly for Wales, and theNorthern Ireland Assembly, thus fulfilling four of the promises in its1997 manifesto. InNorthern Ireland, Blair was involved in the 1998Good Friday Agreement.

Blair ardently supported the foreign policy of theBush administration, and ensured that British Armed Forces participated in the2001 invasion of Afghanistanand, more controversially, the2003 invasion of Iraq. Blair has faced strong criticism for his role in the invasion of Iraq, including calls for having him tried forwar crimesand waging awar of aggression.In 2016 theIraq Inquirystrongly criticised his actions and described the invasion of Iraq as unjustified and unnecessary.

Blair was succeeded as the leader of the Labour Party on 24 June 2007, and as Prime Minister on 27 June 2007 byGordon Brown.On the day that Blair resigned as Prime Minister, he was appointed the official Special Envoy of theQuartet on the Middle East, an office which he held until 27 May 2015.He now runs a consultancy business and has set up various foundations in his own name, including theTony Blair Faith Foundation.