S9.com / Biographies /
Blair, Tony Charles Lynton (UK Prime Minister Tony Blair)
Currently alive, at 60 years of age.
Nationality: Scottish
Categories: Prime Ministers
1953 - Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Blair lived most of his childhood years in Durham.
When he was 14 he went back to Edinburgh to finish studying at Fettes College.
1976 - He met Cherie Booth at the law school and eventually married her.
1983 - At age 30, the product of Oxford law school got the Sedgefield seat during the 1983 General Election.
1984 - He got promoted to the front bench of the shadow Treasury. Blair was a trade and industry spokesman at that time.
1988 - He became a member of the Shadow Cabinet and he was appointed as the Shadow Secretary of State for Energy.
1989 - He went to move to the employment brief.
1992 - Blair got promoted by John Smith to Shadow Home Secretary. He pledged that the party would focus on tough stance on crime and its causes.
1994 - He took over the leadership of the Labour Party after John Smith died. - He then campaigned for a modernized Labour Party which he termed as New Labour.
1997 - With the success of the Labour Party in the General Election, Blair, 43, became the Prime Minister, the youngest since the 1812 Prime Minister Lord Liverpool.
1998 - He was the first UK Prime Minister who addressed the parliament of the Republic of Ireland on November 26.
2001 - He got re-elected.
2003 - Blair was the first Prime Minister under the Labour Party who had the longest term on August 1 since Harold Wilson's term (1964-1970).
- On October 19, his irregular heartbeat condition hit the news.
2005 - His 3rd term as Prime Minister
Presently, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has three sons and one daughter.
Page last updated: 10:23am, 08 |



