Tony Blair
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a former British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He resigned from all of these positions in June 2007.
Tony Blair was elected Leader of the Labour Party in the leadership election of July 1994, following the sudden death of his predecessor, John Smith. Under his leadership, the party adopted the term "New Labour" and moved away from its traditional left wing position towards the centre ground. Blair subsequently led Labour to a landslide victory in the 1997 general election. At 43 years old, he became the youngest Prime Minister since Lord Liverpool in 1812. In the first years of the New Labour government, Blair's government implemented a number of 1997 manifesto pledges, introducing the minimum wage, Human Rights Act and Freedom of Information Act, and carrying out devolution, establishing the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales, and the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Blair's role as Prime Minister was particularly visible in foreign and security policy, including in Northern Ireland, where he was involved in the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. From the start of the War on Terror in 2001, 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.
He was succeeded as Leader of the Labour Party on 24 June 2007 and as Prime Minister on 27 June 2007 by Gordon Brown. 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 in July 2009 by the launching of the Faith and Globalisation Initiative with Yale University in the USA, Durham University in the UK and the National University of Singapore in Asia to deliver a postgraduate programme in partnership with the Foundation.
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Movies (87)
Damilola Taylor: The Untold Story
2026 · Self (archive footage)
England 2006: The Golden Generation
2026 · Self (archive footage)
Queen Elizabeth II: Her Story, Our Century
2026 · Self
Dunblane: How Britain Banned Handguns
2026 · Self
The Dunblane Tapes
2026 · Self (archive footage)
David Attenborough: A Life on Earth
2023 · Self
James Blunt: One Brit Wonder
2023 · Self (archive footage)
Troubles and Peace
2023 · Self
Her Majesty's Prime Ministers: John Major
2023 · Self
Litvinenko: The Mayfair Poisoning
2022 · Self (archive footage)
Merkel
2022 · Self
Liam Gallagher: Knebworth 22
2022 · Self (archive footage)
Born to be The King
2022 · Narrator
The Proclamation of HM the King
2022 · Self
A Tribute to Her Majesty the Queen
2022 · Self
Queen Elizabeth II: Above All Else
2022 · Self
Heist: The Northern Bank Robbery
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Nail Bomber: Manhunt
2021 · Himself (archive Footage)
Viral: Antisemitism in Four Mutations
2020 · Self
30 Years of Democracy
2019 · Self (archive footage)
Under the Knife
2019 · Self
Secretos de estado
2019 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Brexit: The Clock Is Ticking
2019 · Self (archive footage)
Brexit
2019 · Self (archive footage)
Putin's Witnesses
2018 · Self - Politician (archive footage)
In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America
2017 · Self
Diana: The People's Princess
2017 · Self
VICE Special Report: A World in Disarray
2017 · Self
Hero With A Thousand Faces
2016 · Self
HyperNormalisation
2016 · Self (archive footage)
Shadow World
2016 · Self - Politician (archive footage)
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
How to Win the US Presidency
2016 · Self (archive footage)
The Killing$ of Tony Blair
2016 · Self
Brexageddon?!
2016 · Self
De strijd van Kok
2015 · Self
The 90s: Ten Years That Changed the World
2015 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Things We Won't Say About Race That Are True
2015
We Are Many
2014 · Self
The Class of ‘92
2013 · Self
Newsflash: Stories That Stopped the World
2013 · Self
Speeches That Shook the World
2013 · Self (archive footage)
Sir David Frost: That Was the Life That Was
2013
Margaret Thatcher: Prime Minister
2013 · Self
The New Watchdogs
2012 · Self
Adams
2010
How to Win the TV Debate
2010 · Self (archive footage)
Countdown to Zero
2010 · Self
South of the Border
2009 · Self (archive footage)
La Traversée du désir
2009 · Self
Sergio
2009 · Self
Being W
2008 · Self (archive footage)
Gary's War
2008 · Self ( archive footage)
Leading to War
2008 · Self
The New Ten Commandments
2008 · Self (archive footage)
How to Be an Ex-Prime Minister
2007 · Self
From Beaconsfield to Baghdad
2007 · Self (Archive Footage)
Taking Liberties
2007 · Self (archive footage)
Everything's Cool
2007 · Self (archive footage)
Ever Again
2006 · Self - British Prime Minister (archive footage)
Being Jacques Chirac
2006 · Self (archive footage)
The Man Who Broke Britain
2004 · Self (archive footage)
Celsius 41.11
2004 · Self (archive footage)
Unconstitutional: The War On Our Civil Liberties
2004 · Self (archive footage)
Athens 2004: Olympic Opening Ceremony (Games of the XXVIII Olympiad)
2004 · Self - British Prime Minister
Fahrenheit 9/11
2004 · Self (archive footage)
In Search of Tony Blair
2004 · Self (Archive Footage)
The World According To Bush
2004 · Self
The Downing Street Patient
2004 · Self (archive footage)
Fogh bag facaden
2003 · Self
Live Forever
2003 · Self (archive footage)
Trust Me - I'm a Politician
2003 · Self (archive footage)
Echolalia
2003 · Self
The Day That Shook the World
2002 · Self (archive footage)
Second Coming
2002 · Self (archive footage)
Iris
2001 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Cabinet Confidential
2001 · Self
News From Number 10
2000 · Himself
Working for Labour
1998
VM-krönika 1998
1998 · Self (archive footage)
Clinton: His Struggle with Dirt
1998 · Self (archive footage)
Chinese Box
1997 · Self (archive footage)
Party Election Broadcast for the Labour Party
1997 · Self
A Word in the Right Ear
1997 · Himself
Age of Dissent
1994 · Self
When the Windsors Met the Bushes
Kongehusets troløse butler
· Self (archive footage)
TV shows (34)
The Tony Blair Story
2026 · Self
La última llamada
2025 · Self
Live Aid at 40: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took on the World
2025 · Self
Atentado en Londres: La cacería tras las bombas del 7/7
2025 · Self - Prime Minister 1997 - 2007
7/7: The London Bombings
2025 · Self
Punto de inflexión: La bomba y la Guerra Fría
2024 · Self
Lockerbie
2023 · Self - UK Prime Minister (archive footage)
The Agreement
2023 · Self
Blair and Brown: The New Labour Revolution
2021 · Self
Amol Rajan Interviews
2021 · Self - Interviewed Guest
Endgame in Ireland
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Once Upon a Time in Iraq
2020 · Self (archive footage)
Newscast
2020 · Self
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
2018
The Last Leg
2013 · Self
Skavlan
2009 · Self - Guest
The Blair Years
2007 · Self
The Rise and Fall of Tony Blair
2007 · Self
The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom
2007 · Self (archive footage)
Soccer Aid
2006
The Queen at 80
2006 · Self
Parkinson
2004 · Self - Guest
The Century of the Self
2002 · Self (archive footage)
maybrit illner
1999 · Self
Sabine Christiansen
1998 · Self
The Daily Show
1996 · Self
The Wilderness Years
1995 · Self
GMTV
1993 · Self
Los Simpson
1989 · Tony Blair (voice)
Dispatches
1987
Wogan
1982 · Self
Question Time
1979 · Self - Panellist
Panorama
1953
Network First