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Tony Blair, Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party with Busharat Ali Labour Youth Officer Bristol
 Rt Hon Tony Blair
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Tony Blair, Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party
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Rt Hon Tony Blair, born on 6 May 1953, was elected leader of the Labour Party on 21 July 1994. He was first elected to Sedgefield in June 1983 at the age of 30. He was promoted to the Treasury front bench team in 1985 and in 1987 he became spokesperson on trade and industry with special responsibility for consumer affairs and the City.
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He was elected to the Shadow Cabinet in 1988, and was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Energy. In the following year he was made Shadow Secretary of State for Employment, and forged a new industrial relations policy which ended Labour's support for the closed shop.
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Following the general election defeat in 1992, the late leader John Smith appointed him Shadow Home Secretary. He successfully wrested the law and order issue from the Conservatives. A strategy based on the slogan 'tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime' was Labour's key campaigning theme that year.
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In September 1992 he was elected to Labour's National Executive Committee, the ruling body of the party. He led, with John Prescott, the drive to turn Labour into a mass-membership party, and by 1997 Labour had more than 400,000 members becoming the fastest growing party in Europe.
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On his election as leader in 1994, he moved quickly to bring in the essential reforms of the party's constitution and policies, notably replacing Clause IV which was overwhelmingly backed by the party at a special conference in April 1995.
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In 1996 Tony Blair presented to the party the draft manifesto new Labour, new life for Britain, which set out clearly what new Labour would offer in government. It was endorsed by Conference in October 1996, followed by a ballot of the whole membership, and won 95 per cent backing.
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On 1 May 1997 Tony Blair led the Labour Party to its biggest general election victory. Four years later, on 7 June 2001, Labour won a second term, with a majority of 166, just 13 seats down on the 1997 win.
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As Leader of the Labour Party and Prime Minister, Tony Blair has given new direction to the country and begun to build a better Britain with the introduction of a National Minimum Wage, 1 million more jobs, smaller class sizes in primary schools, and the biggest ever sustained investment in the NHS.
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He read law at St John's College, Oxford, he was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1976, and practised as a barrister until 1983, specialising in employment and industrial law. He is married to Cherie Booth, who is a barrister and Queen's Counsel. They have three sons Euan, Nicky and Leo, and a daughter Kathryn..
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