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When the Labour Party came to power in the 1997 general election, the Blair government passed the House of Lords Act 1999. On 7 November 2001 the government undertook a public consultation. [1] This helped to create a public debate on the issue of Lords reform, with 1,101 consultation responses [2] and numerous debates in Parliament and the ...
In order to convince some peers to vote for reform, Tony Blair announced that he would compromise by allowing a number of hereditary peers to remain in the House of Lords on an interim basis. On 2 December 1998, the Conservative Leader of the Opposition, William Hague, rose in the House of Commons
Tony Blair's presidential style of leadership was the subject of study of Michael Foley's book The British Presidency: Tony Blair and the Politics of Public Leadership. Foley uses Blair's premiership as a case study to further the 'presidentialisation thesis', which is a model used to study the growing power of the British Prime Minister at the ...
The ex-deputy prime minister was a key figure in Tony Blair’s ... It marked the start of an at-times uneasy alliance as Sir Tony embarked upon the reform programme which was to propel Labour to ...
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 ...
Blair has used his Quartet Tony Blair Associates works with the Kazakhstan government, advising the regime on judicial, economic and political reforms, but has been subject to criticism after accusations of "whitewashing" the image and human rights record of the regime.
Alan Milburn, who was a minister under Tony Blair, said the service needs radical reform rather than more cash, calling for an end to what he said was a “more, more, more culture”.
The House of Lords Act 1999 withdrew the automatic right of hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords as the first stage of a planned reform by the Labour government of Tony Blair. [7] However 92 hereditary peers were allowed to remain pending completion of the second stage of the proposed reforms. [8]