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Tony Blair: British Parliament
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Tony Blair traces his political birth to the year 1963 when the political hopes of his father died. Leo Blair suffered a stroke while running for Parliament for the Conservatives. Tony was just 10.
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Politically, one of the legacies of the Blair government has been devolution in both Scotland and Wales. One of the first acts of the first Blair Government was to hold referendums about devolution in Scotland and Wales, in November 1997. These showed clear support for devolution in Scotland, and, following this result, the 1998 Scotland Act established a separate parliament for Scotland with devolved responsibilities in most domestic areas [29]; The first Scottish Parliament was elected in May 1999. The referendum in Wales ... supported devolution, but by a narrow majority and with a small electoral turnout;[30] accordingly a Welsh National Assembly was established, but with much more limited responsibilities than the Scottish Parliament.[31]
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Blair's visit to Parliament today once again managed to set the cat among the pigeons. Conservative MEPs actually asked to have a private meeting with him, while the Lib Dems didn't and organised what appeared to be some sort of demonstration instead. The Tories' meeting left several of them muttering audibly about how none of their leadership contenders could ever match him for ability. Others wondered what the point of their meeting was (as, no doubt, did Blair) and speculated that Tim Kirkhope, their leader in the European Parliament, was after a peerage!
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When Mr. Blair's own electoral appeal was at its peak, Labor members of Parliament tended to go along grudgingly with his policy initiatives anyway. And in those days, Labor's parliamentary majority was large enough that a few defections scarcely mattered. Now, with reduced support in Parliament and the country, Mr. Blair needs to pay more heed to his critics if he hopes to push through the education, health care and pension reforms he favors before leaving office.
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Privately, Blair opposed abortion, but he considered that the issue was not one where legislation should be dictated by Christian morality. Despite the Christian beliefs which gave him personal solace and which, it his said, influenced his policies in some areas, in Parliament he never voted with the pro-life lobby and voted 14 times for the pro-choice lobby. In December 2000 he gave his personal backing to regulations allowing stem-cell research on human embryos. [38]
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Blair is expected to cash in on his international contacts after quitting Downing Street on June 27. In addition, Blair's agent said he would quit Parliament if "a big international job" came up.
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