“I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.”

—  Tony Blair

Michael White, "Blair wants 'to make UK young again'", Guardian, 4 October 1995.
Speech to the Labour Party conference, 3 October 1995.
1990s

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