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An era ends as Blair steps down
Published on Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 16:10, Updated on Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 16:22 in World section
Tags: Tony Blair, Gordon Brown , New Delhi
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New Delhi: An era culminates on Wednesday when Gordon brown takes over as the new Prime Minister of Britain. Here’s a look at the decade at Downing Street under Tony Blair.
In May 1997 Tony Blair became Britain's youngest Prime Minister since 1812. His New Labour was swept to power by a country desperate for change after 18 years of Conservative rule. His brand of reformist centre-left politics was dubbed the Third Way.
Blair chalked up his first success the very next year with the Good Friday Agreement paving the way for political devolution in Northern Ireland.
In March 1999, he persuaded NATO to move against the Serbs in Kosovo. He called it giving an ethical dimension to foreign policy.
Says Blair, “We fought in this conflict for a cause and this cause was justice,"
However, Blair didn’t do much of the goodwill generated by his actions in Kosovo by sending troops to join the US invasion of Iraq.
Fifty eight per cent of Britons in a recent opinion poll say it is his biggest foreign policy failure. But Blair has remained unrepentant.
"The problem is, I can apologies for the information that turned out to be wrong but I can't, sincerely at least, apologise for removing Saddam,” says Blair.
In the last few months, his position has been undermined by investigations into whether his government nominated businessmen for peerages in return for money. Prosecutors are yet to decide whether to press charges.
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We need a PM like him. Apart from Iraq fiasco, his performance was very good.
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