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Introduction

Tony Blair, born in 1953, prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007. A political centrist, Blair became the youngest person ever to lead the Labour Party when he assumed the post in 1994. He secured a landslide victory for his party in the 1997 general elections. Under his leadership, the party retained a majority of seats in the British Parliament following the 2001 and 2005 elections.