Tony Blair. "[130], Blair criticised other governments for not doing enough to solve global climate change. "[265], According to Press Secretary Alastair Campbell's diary, Blair often read the Bible before taking any important decisions. [222][225], Media analysis of the sudden announcement was wide-ranging, describing it as an act of "desperation" to obtain a better launch reception of a humiliating "publishing flop"[226] that had languished in the ratings,[222][226] "blood money" for the lives lost in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars,[222][224] an act with a "hidden motive" or an expression of "guilt",[222][223] a "genius move" to address the problem that "Tony Blair ha[d] one of the most toxic brands around" from a PR perspective, and a "cynical stunt to wipe the slate", but also as an attempt to make amends. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2021. Private firms were given an important role in financing state infrastructure projects, despite widespread criticism that this financing was on terms often disadvantageous to the taxpayer. In November 2011, a war crimes tribunal of the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission, established by Malaysia's former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, reached a unanimous conclusion that Blair and George W. Bush are guilty of crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, and genocide as a result of their roles in the 20032011 Iraq War. Where its leaders are saying what is unacceptable, they should be exposed. I will take full responsibility for any mistakes without exception or excuse. In 1923, he returned to (and later died in) Ballyshannon, County Donegal, in Ulster. [267], At one point Alastair Campbell intervened in an interview, preventing Blair from answering a question about his Christianity, explaining, "We don't do God. Blair owns two dozen . The strong partnership with Bill Clinton was made into the film The Special Relationship in 2010. It stands for equality. [143] A revealing conversation between Bush and Blair, with the former addressing the latter as "Yo [or Yeah], Blair" was recorded when they did not know a microphone was live at the G8 summit in Saint Petersburg in 2006. Hawara: 'What happened was horrific and barbaric'. The High Court ruled that, although the crime of aggression was recognised in international law, it was not an offence under UK law, and, therefore, the prosecution could not proceed. [151] During his first visit to Israel, Blair thought the Israelis bugged him in his car. If Parliament can't then it should decide to go back to the people. Blair was instrumental in persuading Nato leaders to bomb Serbia in 1999 and thus became the saviour of the Kosovan Albanians. Leo Blair (centre), the youngest son of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and Cherie Blair (right), listen to Mr Blair during a speech to mark the 120th anniversary of the founding of the Labour party in February. Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater. Blair's Net Worth as of 2022 is $60 million or almost 50.3 million. Following the death of Smith in 1994, Blair won the 1994 Labour Party leadership election to succeed him. [116] Under Blair's government the amount of new legislation increased[117] which attracted criticism. Blair stated, "We know the options for Brexit. This would entail the utilization of new biometric technology to store a person's passport, driving license, tax records, qualifications, and their right to work status. Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to exclusive content. [288], On 13 January 2009, Blair was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Somehow this has become distorted by excitable Right-wing newspaper columnists into being a "plot" to make Britain multicultural. Posted: Feb 28, 2023. We work hard, every day, to make a difference. [211] Blair was reported to have accepted a business advisory role with President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt, a situation deemed incompatible with his role as Middle East envoy. Was he radical, was he "unconstitutional"? [56], Aided by the unpopularity of John Major's Conservative government (itself deeply divided over the European Union),[57] "New Labour" won a landslide victory at the 1997 general election, ending eighteen years of Conservative Party rule, with the heaviest Conservative defeat since 1906. Blair's first PMOS was Alastair Campbell, who served in that role from May 1997 to 8 June 2001, after which he served as the prime minister's director of communications and strategy until his resignation on 29 August 2003 in the aftermath of the Hutton Inquiry. As the high-profile mediator of the stuttering peace process in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Blair had to be careful not to mix business with pleasure. Developing and advocating for practical recommendations on the peace process and to improve the economic, political and humanitarian realities on the ground in the West Bank and Gaza. They have several projects that [they] are working [on] and I think it would [give] a very interesting perspective to see if we could establish a strategic partnership with former PM Tony Blair and yourself, he wrote. [83] The Chilcot Inquiry report of 2016 gave a damning assessment of Blair's role in the Iraq War, though the former prime minister again refused to apologise for his decision to back the US-led invasion. [1], Blair's first relocation was when he was nineteen months old. [259], His first grandchild (a girl) was born in October 2016. He is the only Labour leader in the party's 100-year history to win three consecutive General Elections. [159] During Blair's premiership, MI6 rendered Abdelhakim Belhaj to the Gaddafi regime in 2004, though Blair later claimed he had "no recollection" of the incident. Blair gave control of the economic agenda to Gordon Brown, his chancellor of the Exchequer and eventual successor. Tony and Cherie Blair's property empire worth estimated 27m, Tony Blair has turned profiting from others misery into an art form, TheBlairs' property empire - in pictures, Broken Vows: Tony Blair The Tragedy of Power review, Broken Vows: Tony Blair, The Tragedy of Power by Tom Bower digested read, Themost potent, permanent and elusive figure in British politics, high-profile mediator of the stuttering peace process in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he earned 200,000 for a speech in the industrial city of Dongguan, halting a Serious Fraud Office inquiry in 2006, while prime minister, into alleged corruption. Since the Iraq War, Blair has been the subject of war crimes accusations. [134], Blair built his foreign policy on basic principles (close ties with U.S. and E.U.) Blair had notable electoral successes and reforms, and he is usually rated as above average in historical rankings and public opinion of British prime ministers. How did Vladimir Putin lose half of Russia's elite paratroopers? On paper PetroSaudi looked impressive: its chief investment officer was a former Goldman Sachs banker, Patrick Mahony. In a sense, it was a rediscovery of religion as something living, that was about the world around me rather than some sort of special one-to-one relationship with a remote Being on high. Nicky, pictured furthest right,is licenced by Fifa and co-founded Magnitude Brazil Sports limited, based in Rio de Janeiro, in 2011. His sixth visit in 2007 when he earned 200,000 for a speech in the industrial city of Dongguan marked a turning point in how he viewed the rising power. [279] He has also appeared as himself at the end of the first episode of The Amazing Mrs Pritchard, a British television series about an unknown housewife becoming prime minister. The father-of-one was introduced to his wife by former defence secretary Geoff Hoon while she was on work experience. [99] On 7 September 2006, Blair publicly stated he would step down as party leader by the time of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) conference held 1013 September 2007,[100] having promised to serve a full term during the previous general election campaign. [177] A following complaint was rejected, with Downing Street claiming the information compromised free and frank discussions, while Cabinet Office claimed releasing the timing of the PM's contacts with individuals is undesirable, as it might lead to the content of the discussions being disclosed. Euan Blair, the oldest of the former PM's offspring has done very well for himself. His tenure as leader began with a historic rebranding of the party, who began to use the campaign label New Labour. [248], In August 2021, Blair criticised the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan and of NATO troops saying that it was "in obedience to an imbecilic slogan about ending 'the forever wars'". [186], Blair's apparent refusal to set a date for his departure was criticised by the British press and Members of Parliament. Hazel Corscadden was the daughter of George Corscadden, a butcher and Orangeman who moved to . Tony Blair says his authority is intact despite suffering his first House of Commons defeat as prime minister. 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[6], Headed by German-American political scientist Yascha Mounk, a lecturer at Harvard, they work to revitalise the centre ground of politics and equip todays leaders to combat the rise of false populism. The company works with more than 500 employers to get studentsfrom underrepresented backgrounds into professional services through apprenticeships. [215], In February 2009 he applied to set up a charity called the Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative: the application was approved in November 2009. [6][7], Blair has an older brother, Sir William Blair, a High Court judge, and a younger sister, Sarah. [105], In 2001, Blair said, "We are a left of centre party, pursuing economic prosperity and social justice as partners and not as opposites". A petition calling for Sir Tony's honour to be rescinded has over a million signatures. [176][278] Blair denied the allegations. The former government advisor Andrew Neather in the Evening Standard stated that the deliberate policy of ministers from late 2000 until early 2008 was to open up the UK to mass migration. [138], Along with enjoying a close relationship with Bill Clinton, Blair formed a strong political alliance with George W. Bush, particularly in the area of foreign policy. With victories in 1997, 2001, and 2005, Blair was the Labour Party's longest-serving prime minister,[64] and the first and only person to date to lead the party to three consecutive general election victories. Job Title: Head of Partnerships, Africa The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI) is a non-profit group that helps governments with strategy, policy, and implementation through its policy work and advisory practice. [251] In a May 2021 New Statesman article, Blair suggested that the party had a "total deconstruction and reconstruction", saying that Labour leader Keir Starmer was being backed into "electorally off-putting positions" and lacked a compelling economic message. PetroSaudi, he said, had already seen the benefit as the man in charge of Chinas economic policy is now supportive of working with PetroSaudi, and he has spoken with CNPC [China National Petroleum Corporation] to ensure a proper working dialogue. The modern criteria, according to Buckingham Palace, is to "honour those who have undertaken public service, who have contributed in a particular way to national life or who have served the sovereign personally". In the period between September 2002 and April 2005, Blair and Murdoch are documented speaking 6 times; three times in the 9 days before the Iraq War, including the eve of 20 March US and UK invasion, and on 29 January 25 April and 3 October 2004. He did not reverse the privatisation of the railways enacted by his predecessor John Major and instead strengthened regulation (by creating the Office of Rail Regulation) and limited fare rises to inflation +1%. A Freedom of Information request by The Sunday Times in 2012 revealed that Blair's government considered knighting Syria's President Bashar al-Assad. This role reports to the Director, Global Partnerships and sits within the Strategy & Partnerships (S&P) Department of TBI. There was an Australian priest at the same college as me who got me interested again. [11], They engage with Israeli and Palestinian leaders and key officials, influential regional actors, diplomatic missions and multinational institutions, to inform and guide thinking and decision-making. "[131] Blair and his party promised a 20% reduction in carbon dioxide. Brown, who considered himself the senior of the two, understood that Blair would give way to him: opinion polls soon indicated, however, that Blair appeared to enjoy greater support among voters. They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. The team also focuses on efforts aimed at allowing for renewed and credible discussions between the Palestinian and Israeli governments, including on pressing issues related to the economic and fiscal stability of the Palestinian Authority, as well as working with the sides on ideas to boost the Palestinian economy. Tony Blair is closing the advisory firm that has muddied his post-government career by making millions of pounds from an array of controversial clients ranging from oil companies to the. On 10 May 2007, during a speech at the Trimdon Labour Club, Blair announced his intention to resign as both Labour Party leader and prime minister. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie Blair attend the Order of the Garter Service at St. Georges's Chapel at Windsor Castle, A petition to cancel the former Prime Minister's knighthood over the Iraq War got 1million signatures in six days but despite this Tony Blair was made Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, The picture is one of the first times the Blair clan have been pictured all together in public since leaving Downing Street in 2007. Salaries posted anonymously by Tony Blair Institute for Global Change employees. He has been the executive chairman of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change since 2016, and has made occasional political interventions. Critics of his actions, including Bishop Desmond Tutu,[230] Harold Pinter[231] and Arundhati Roy[232] have called for his trial at the International Criminal Court. PetroSaudis pitch in the document was that it claimed many countries will get a company in but then bully it around once it is there and has sunk billions of dollars in the ground. Tony Blair was born in 1953 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Tony and Cherie Blair are directors at a company involved in the PFI that funded Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, which continues to receive rent from the NHS for use of the hospital. [77] Playwright Harold Pinter and former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad accused Blair of war crimes. A few days later, Labovitch emailed the London-based oil firm to say: Tony has just been in China and informally sounded out a number of people.. [84], One of Blair's first acts as prime minister was to replace the then twice-weekly 15-minute sessions of Prime Minister's Questions held on Tuesdays and Thursdays with a single 30-minute session on Wednesdays. [60] Blair was forced to back down on these proposals because John Prescott and Gordon Brown opposed the PR system, and many members of the Shadow Cabinet were worried about concessions being made towards the Lib Dems. The documents showed Blair was willing to appear alongside Assad at a joint press conference even though the Syrians would probably have settled for a farewell handshake for the cameras; British officials sought to manipulate the media to portray Assad in a favourable light; and Blair's aides tried to help Assad's "photogenic" wife Asma al-Assad boost her profile. ", "How New Labour succeeded with NHS policy", "Don't listen to the whingers London needs immigrants", "Labour wanted mass immigration to make UK more multicultural, says former adviser", "How I became the story and why the Right is wrong", Britain Set to Miss its Own Greenhouse Gas Target, "Blair attacked over right-wing EU links", "By their friends shall we know the Sultans of Bling: Blair's relationships with Berlusconi, Bush and Murdoch have defined his premiership. They increasingly saw Labour in terms defined by the opposition, regarding higher taxes and higher interest rates. He said: '[Graduates and him] had no divine right to be there it was a consequence of a system that was obsessed with using academics, with all the latent biases and problems inherent in that, to select people.. [126], Non-European immigration rose significantly during the period from 1997, not least because of the government's abolition of the primary purpose rule in June 1997. He opposed the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) in 1986 but supported the ERM by 1989. A petition calling for Sir Tony Blair to be stripped of his knighthood has been signed by more than 670,000 people. Although born in Edinburgh, Scotland, he mainly grew up in the city of Durham in northeastern England. The appointments are the personal choice of the Queen, who has up to 24 "knight and lady companions". In addition to PMQs, Blair held monthly press conferences at which he fielded questions from journalists[85] and from 2002 broke precedent by agreeing to give evidence twice yearly before the most senior Commons select committee, the Liaison Committee. [223], On 16 August 2010 it was announced that Blair would give the 4.6million advance and all royalties from his memoirs to the Royal British Legion the charity's largest ever single donation. In 1982, Blair was selected as the Labour Party candidate for the safe Conservative seat of Beaconsfield, where there was a forthcoming by-election. [72], Blair ordered Operation Barras, a highly successful SAS/Parachute Regiment strike to rescue hostages from a Sierra Leone rebel group. In the 2006 Channel 4 comedy drama documentary, Tony Blair: Rock Star, he was portrayed by Christian Brassington. [63] He was also the first prime minister born after World War II and the accession of ElizabethII to the throne. Robert Graves, The White Goddess (Octagon Books. [30][31], With a general election due, Blair had not been selected as a candidate anywhere. [8] His father lectured in law at the University of Adelaide. "Anthony Blair" redirects here. We exist to equip political leaders and governments to build open, inclusive and prosperous societies. [103] Blair tendered his resignation on 27 June 2007 and Brown assumed office during the same afternoon. [104] The resulting Sedgefield by-election was won by Labour's candidate, Phil Wilson. He abandoned the partys stated commitment to the nationalization of the economy (by waging a successful battle to have the party modify its constitutions Clause IV, which committed the party to the common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange), reduced links with trade unions, and obtained unprecedented commitments to free enterprise, anti-inflationary policies, aggressive crime prevention, and support for Britains integration into the European Union (EU). [151] From 2001, Blair built up a relationship[clarification needed] with Barak's successor, Ariel Sharon, and responded positively to Arafat, whom he had met thirteen times since becoming prime minister and regarded as essential to future negotiations. [177] Lord Avebury's initial October 2003 information request was dismissed by then leader of the Lords, Baroness Amos. [181], Blair has been noted as a charismatic, articulate speaker with an informal style. [46] Film and theatre director Richard Eyre opined that "Blair had a very considerable skill as a performer". In November, Blair was back in Beijing to give a speech for his Faith Foundation. [148] Levy ran the Labour Leader's Office Fund to finance Blair's campaign before the 1997 election and raised 12million towards Labour's landslide victory, Levy was rewarded with a peerage, and in 2002, Blair appointed Lord Levy as his personal envoy to the Middle East. Tony Blair is the sole owner and Executive Chairman of the Institute, as set out in the Articles of Association, and he receives no remuneration for his work at TBI, to which he devotes at least 80% of his time. He was a Member of Parliament for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. [170][171], Blair was reported by The Guardian in 2006 to have been supported politically by Rupert Murdoch, the founder of the News Corporation organisation. The former Labour prime minister now becomes known as Sir Tony. In May 1998 Blair led a successful referendum campaign to create a new assembly for London and to establish the citys first directly elected mayor. There was no plot. The proceedings lasted for four days, and consisted of five judges of judicial and academic backgrounds, a tribunal-appointed defence team in lieu of the defendants or representatives, and a prosecution team including international law professor Francis Boyle. Aged 43, Blair became the youngest person to become prime minister since Lord Liverpool became prime minister aged 24 in 1812,[62] and until Rishi Sunak became prime minister in 2022. [8], Since his childhood, Blair has been a fan of Newcastle United football club.[10][11][12]. [17], In 1972, at the age of 19, Blair matriculated at St John's College, Oxford, reading Jurisprudence for three years. Tony and Cherie Blair with their children outside No 10 Downing Street Daniel Berehulak / Getty Images. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. [271], Later on, Blair questioned the Pope's attitude towards homosexuality, arguing that religious leaders must start "rethinking" the issue. [177], The response includes contacts "clearly of an official nature" in the specified period, but excludes contacts "not clearly of an official nature. He served for 10 years before resigning and handing power to his chancellor, Gordon Brown. Tony Blair served as Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1997 to 2007--the only Labour leader in the party's 100-year history to win three consecutive elections. [13], The Tony Blair Institute has projects in 14 African countries, whose combined population exceeds 460 million. In December 2021, it was announced that former Prime Minister Tony Blair would be appointed a Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. From early on in their relationship PetroSaudi executives admitted they knew very little about Blairs firms. Here's a look at the life of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. [282], When Blair resigned as prime minister, Robert Harris, a former Fleet Street political editor, dropped his other work to write The Ghost. Tony and Cherie Blair are directors at a company involved in the PFI that funded Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, which continues to receive rent from the NHS for use of the hospital. He put himself forward as a candidate for the Hackney council elections of 1982 in Queensbridge ward, a safe Labour area, but was not selected.[27]. 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