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[319] [320] Blair had reportedly indicated when he left office that he did not want the traditional knighthood or peerage bestowed on former prime ministers. [321] A petition cited his role in the Iraq War as a reason to remove the knighthood and garnered more than one million signatures. [ 322 ]
During its first year in office, the Blair Government made the controversial decision of cutting Lone Parent Benefit, which led to abstentions amongst many Labour MPs. In March 1998, however, Brown responded in his Budget statement by increasing child benefit by £2.50 a week above the rate of inflation, the largest ever increase in the benefit.
In a July 2011 speech, Blair stated that New Labour died when he left office and Brown assumed the party leadership, claiming that from 2007 the party "lost the driving rhythm". [31] Nonetheless, New Labour's Third Way influenced a range of centre-left political parties across the world.
Prime Minister Tony Blair took office in 1997, and served for a decade. He is a major player in the final season of The Crown, as Blair (played by Bertie Carvel) tries to modernize the monarchy as ...
Tony Blair: Labour: 2 May 1997 27 June 2007 10 years, 57 days Resigned 10 The Viscount Palmerston: Whig 6 February 1855 19 February 1858 3 years, 14 days 9 years, 143 days Resigned [5] Liberal 12 June 1859 18 October 1865 6 years, 129 days Died 11 H. H. Asquith: Liberal 8 April 1908 5 December 1916 8 years, 243 days Resigned [11] 12
Finland's former Prime Minister Sanna Marin, who narrowly lost an election in April and stepped down from the leadership of her party last week, plans to leave parliament and join the Tony Blair ...
MSNBC’s evening line-up may soon look quite different from what die-hard viewers have come to expect. The NBCUniversal-backed cable network is expected to move the trio of Symone Sanders ...
The Conservatives lost the 1997 general election in a landslide to the opposition Labour Party led by Tony Blair, ending 18 years of Conservative government. After Blair succeeded Major as prime minister, Major served as Leader of the Opposition for seven weeks while the leadership election to replace him took place.