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Facts abaout Tony Blair

Prime Minister, Tony Blair

Rt Hon Tony Blair MP, born on 6 May 1953, was elected leader of the Labour Party on 21 July 1994 as MP for Sedgefield. TONY BLAIR traces his political genesis to the paralysis of his father. In 1963, when Blair was 11, his father suffered a stroke while campaigning for a Conservative seat in Parliament. "After his illness, my father transferred his ambitions onto his kids," Blair said in an interview with The Sunday Times Magazine 1994.
Unlike John Major’s, Blair’s upbringing was privileged. His father was a law lecturer, and Blair was educated at the elite Fettes College in Edinburgh before going to Oxford for law school in 1972. Blair was known as a gregarious student and as the gyrating bass guitar and lead singer for a rock band called Ugly Rumours.
Blair was a practicing barrister from 1976 to 1983, specializing in employment and industrial law. He joined the Labour Party in 1976, but was disillusioned by some of its main causes—especially na...

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