Anthony Charles Lynton Blair Biography and Works.

Born on May 6, 1953, Anthony Charles Lynton Blair is a former British Labour Party politician, who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 2, 1997 to June 27, 2007.

He was the Sedgefield MP from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007.

He resigned from all of these positions in June 2007. He became the youngest Prime Minister since Lord Liverpool in 1812 at the age of 43. Blair strongly supported the foreign policy of US President George W Bush, notably by participating in the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan and 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Blair is the Labour Party’s longest-serving Prime Minister, the only person to have led the Labour Party to three consecutive general election victories and the only Labour Prime Minister to serve consecutive terms more than one of which was at least four years long.

On the day he resigned as Prime Minister, he was appointed the official Envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East. In May 2008, Blair launched his Tony Blair Faith Foundation’. This was followed by the launching of the Faith and Globalisation Initiative with Yale University in the United States, Durham University in the United Kingdom and the National University of Singapore in Asia in July 2009 to deliver a postgraduate programme in partnership with the Foundation.

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He was converted to Catholicism in December 2007.

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“I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated.”