Tony Blair (born 6 May 1953) is Labour’s longest serving Prime Minister of 10 years, ending 18 years of rule by the Conservative party with his 1997 landslide election victory. Born in Edinburgh, the Scottish Prime Minister won his first seat in parliament for Sedgefield in the 1983 General Election aged just 30. After a speedy rise through the ranks, in 1992 his predecessor John Smith promoted Blair to Shadow Home Secretary. In 1994 following the sudden death of Smith, Blair won leadership of the party with a sizeable majority giving him the power to push ahead with party reforms under his trademark “New Labour” brand, abandoning decades of Labour policy to become more of a central party. Since becoming Prime Minister, Blair has used his strong support base to push through radical ...more >>and often unpopular pro-market reforms including minimum wage, tuition fees for higher education, constitutional reform such as devolution in Scotland and Wales, and progress in the Northern Ireland peace process. Mr Blair strongly supported United States foreign policy, often against fierce criticism, taking Britain to invade Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003. Mr Blair is married to the barrister Cherie Booth QC, and they have four children. Their youngest, Leo, was the first child born to a serving Prime Minister in over 150 years. A day in the life of Tony Blair: http://video.twofourtv.com/play/number10_films.asp?m=a_day_in_the_life_221205_bb.wmv&.wvx