Anthony Charles Lynton Blair

Anthony Charles Lynton Blair was born on 6th May, 1953 in Edinburgh. He is a son of The son of a barrister and lecturer. He is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service and MP for Sedgefield.

Blair led Labour to power with a landslide victory in the 1997 regneral election replacing John Major as Prime Minister and ending 18 years of Conservative government. He is the Labour Party's longest-serving Prime Minister, and the only person to have led the party to three consecutive general election victories.

The youngest person to be appointed Prime Minister since 1812, he has deployed British armed forces into four conflicts: in Kosovo, Sierra Loene, afghanistan and Iraq.

At the age of 14 he returned to Edinburgh to finish his education at Fettes College. He studied law at Oxford, and went on to become a barrister himself.

Since the 11th September attacks on New York and Washington, Blair's political agenda has been dominated by international affairs, especially with the United States-led "War on Teror". He has controversially supported some aspects of US President George W. Bush's foreign policy, including sending British troops to participate in Afghanistan since 2001, and in Iraq since 2003; Blair's related anti-terrorism legislation has also been controversial.

In October 2004, Blair declared his intention to seek a third term but not a fourth. The Labour party won a third term in government at the 2005 general election for the first time in its history, although its majority in the House of Commons was reduced to 66. On 14th May, 2006, the Independent on Sunday reported that Blair had privately assured ministers that he would step down in the summer of 2007.