Tony Blair

Tony Blair was born May 6, 1953 in Edinburgh, Scotland. After attending The Cherister School in Durham in north-east England from 1961-1966, he boarded at Fettes College, an independent school in Scotland. After Fettes, Blair spent a year in London, where he attempted to find fame as a rock music promoter before reading jurisprudence at St.John's College, Oxford. After graduating from Oxford in 1976, with a second class Honours BA in Jurisprudence, Blair became a member of Lincoln's Inn, and enrolled as a pupil barrister.


Tony Blair is a British Labour Politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 2, 1997 to June 27, 2007. He was the member of Parliament for Sedgfield from 1983-2007 and the leader of Labour Party from 1994-2007; he resigned all these positions in June 2007. 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. In May 2008, he launched his Tony Blair Faith Foundation. This was followed in July 2009, by the launching of the Faith and Globalisation Initiative with Yale University in the USA, Durham University in the UK, and National University of Singapore in Asia to deliver postgraduate progamme in partnership with the Foundation. Once elected, Blair's ascent was rapid, and he recieved his first front-bench appointment in 1984 as assistant Treasury Spokesman.