“I don't like it, to be honest, when politicians make a big thing of their religious beliefs, so I don't make a big thing of it.”

— Tony Blair

BBC Newsnight http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/1988874.stm <br class="br">Interview with Jeremy Paxman, 16 May 2002. <br class="br">2000s

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former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1953

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