Tony Blair, né le 6 mai 1953 à Édimbourg , est un homme d'État britannique, membre du Parti travailliste et Premier ministre du Royaume-Uni du 2 mai 1997 au 27 juin 2007. Durant sa période à la tête du Parti travailliste , puis comme chef du gouvernement, Tony Blair réforme en profondeur l'idéologie et la pratique du travaillisme britannique, largement converti à l'économie de marché. Le courant de pensée de Tony Blair, défini comme une « troisième voie » entre la gauche et la droite traditionnelles, est surnommé le « blairisme ». Dans l'histoire du parti travailliste britannique, la période d'hégémonie de Blair et de son entourage est surnommée le New Labour.
Remplacé par son ministre des Finances, Gordon Brown, il est nommé représentant au Proche-Orient du Quartet . Depuis qu'il a quitté ses fonctions politiques, il fait fortune comme consultant et conférencier. Il crée début 2009 une société commerciale baptisée « Tony Blair Associates ». Bien que son bilan ne fasse pas l'unanimité, y compris dans son propre parti, il intervient ponctuellement dans le débat politique britannique, par exemple pour s'opposer à l'actuel dirigeant travailliste Jeremy Corbyn ou pour donner son opinion à propos du Brexit.
“We can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world.”
In full: Tony Blair's speech http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5382590.stm, BBC News online. Final speech to the Labour Party Annual Conference as Leader, 26 September 2006.
2000s
Hansard http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmhansrd/cm070627/debtext/70627-0003.htm, Last official words as Prime Minister, said at Prime Minister's Questions on 27 June 2007.
2000s
Contexte: Some may belittle politics but we who are engaged in it know that it is where people stand tall. Although I know that it has many harsh contentions, it is still the arena that sets the heart beating a little faster. If it is, on occasions, the place of low skulduggery, it is more often the place for the pursuit of noble causes. I wish everyone, friend or foe, well. That is that. The end.
“Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.”
European Parliament debates http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+CRE+20050623+ITEM-004+DOC+XML+V0//EN&language=EN&query=INTERV&detail=4-010
Speech to the European Parliament outlining the priorities of the British Presidency, 23 June 2005.
2000s
"New Britain: My vision of a young country", p. 70.
1990s
Speech at the Lord Mayor's Banquet http://web.archive.org/20041128025440/www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page6583.asp, 15 November 2004.
Urging Europe to stop ridiculing American President George W. Bush.
2000s
Michael Ignatieff, "Why Are We In Iraq? (And Liberia? And Afghanistan?)", New York Times, 5 September, 2003.
2000s
" Blair launches stinging attack on 'absurd' British Islamists http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,,2115929,00.html", 1 July 2007.
Remarks made on the eve of his departure from Downing Street, 26 June 2007.
2000s
“Lead me into war…you know I believe in you.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/27/international/europe/27memo.html?_r=1 Meeting with George W. Bush on January 31, 2003.
2000s
Prime Minister's website http://web.archive.org/20051103003809/www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page7314.asp
11 March 2005, at the launch of the Commission for Africa Report.
2000s
Trevor Kavanagh, "Blair: My big blunder", The Sun, 17 November 1997, p. 8.
Interview with John Humphrys on BBC TV's "On the Record", 16 November 1997.
1990s
Michael White, "Blair wants 'to make UK young again'", Guardian, 4 October 1995.
Speech to the Labour Party conference, 3 October 1995.
1990s
The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/07/egypt-army-morsi-tony-blair 6 July, 2013 Blair justifying the Egyptians army actions on removing Morsi.
2010s
Philip Webster, "Blair sets sights on Downing Street", The Times, 22 July 1994.
Speech on being elected Leader of the Labour Party, 21 July 1994.
1990s
" Full text of Tony Blair's resignation speech http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/the_blair_years/article1772414.ece", Times Online, 10 May 2007.
Announcing his impending resignation, Trimdon Labour Club, 10 May 2007.
2000s
As quoted in "Socialism is So Hot Right Now" https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/socialism-hot-right-now/ (17 September 2018), by Jonah Goldberg, Commentary
1990s
CNN, Decembeer 7, 2008 http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0812/07/le.01.html.
2000s
Prime Minister's monthly press conference http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page5691.asp, 22 April 2004.
2000s
Lecture on Our Nation's Future - Public Life http://web.archive.org/20071029204355/www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page11923.asp, Reuters, 12 June 2007.
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Hansard http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm200102/cmhansrd/vo020410/debtext/20410-04.htm, House of Commons 6th series, vol. 383, col. 23.
House of Commons statement on discussions with President Bush over the Middle East, 10 April 2002.
2000s
“I want to see a publicly-owned railway, publicly accountable.”
Paul Routledge, "Why the unions aren't rocking Blair's boat", Independent on Sunday, 8 October 1995.
Speech to the Labour Party conference, 3 October 1995.
1990s
Prime Ministers Questions, 30 January 1997.
1990s
Hansard http://archive.is/20130707074457/http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200405/cmhansrd/cm050126/debtext/50126-03.htm%2350126-03_spnew24, House of Commons, 6th series, vol. 430, col. 302.
In the House of Commons, 26 January 2005.
2000s
As quoted in "Socialism is So Hot Right Now" https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/socialism-hot-right-now/ (17 September 2018), by Jonah Goldberg, Commentary
1990s
" Full text of Tony Blair's resignation speech http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/the_blair_years/article1772414.ece", Times Online, 10 May 2007.
Announcing his impending resignation, Trimdon Labour Club, 10 May 2007.
2000s
Martin Bentham, "You're the boss, Tony", The Sun, 28 May 1997, p. 2.
Speech at a summit in Paris between NATO and Russia, 27 May 1997.
1990s
In full: Tony Blair's speech http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5382590.stm, BBC News online
Attacking David Cameron, during his Labour Party Conference speech on 26 September 2006.
2000s
“This is not a clash between civilisations. It is a clash about civilisation.”
"Clash about civilisations" speech http://web.archive.org/20060411042815/www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page9224.asp, Prime Minister's website.
Foreign Policy speech at Reuters Headquarters, London, on 21 March 2006.
2000s
Tony Blair's speech in full http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/460009.stm, BBC News online
Speech to the Labour Party conference, 28 September 1999, paraphrasing Harold Macmillan's statement "most of our people have never had it so good" and comparing with Gordon Brown's frequent use of the word "prudent".
1990s
“A new dawn has broken, has it not?”
Victory speech at Labour election-night party, Royal Festival Hall, London, 2 May 1997.
1990s
“That's the art of leadership. To make sure that what shouldn't happen, doesn't happen.”
[Stryker Mcguire, I Did It My Way, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17202843/site/newsweek/, Newsweek International, 2007-02-26, 2007-02-20]
Interview with Newsweek.
2000s
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