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Tony Blair's sexual affairs with George Bush have caused considerable frustration to Laura Bush who has threatened to divorce her husband over the matter. Laura Bush has reportedly refused to watch or participate in their sexual intercourse, although she has often participated in George's other affairs, including that of Condoleezza Rice. This is because the affair between George and Tony is such an intimate nature that Laura has become jealous because she has never experienced this with George. George once claimed that Tony could do things with a cucumber that most Americans "couldn't imagine". Or spell.
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Tony Blair said Wednesday that he would handle negotiations at next month's European summit and declined to say if his successor would be part of Britain delegation. The EU stalled constitution will be among subjects.
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Tony Blair established himself during 1993 as the most effective of the younger generation of MPs in the U.K. Labour Party and as favourite to succeed John Smith--in due course--as party leader. Handsome, charismatic, and possessing a determination to modernize progressive politics, Blair was the Labour politician who most worried the U.K.'s Conservatives.
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Between 1955 and 1959, Leo and Hazel Blair and the infant Tony lived in Australia, where Leo lectured in law at the University of Adelaide. On returning to Britain, they lived for a time with Hazel Blair's stepfather, William McClay, and her mother in Stepps, near Glasgow, until Leo found a job as a lecturer at Durham University. Tony spent the rest of his childhood in Durham, England, where he attended Durham's Chorister School. Leo had political ambitions - as a youth he had been secretary of the Scottish Young Communist League - but he became chairman of the local Conservative association, and began to campaign as a Conservative candidate for Parliament; during this campaign, in 1963, Leo had a stroke that left him partially paralysed.
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In the international realm Blair maintained the United Kingdom’s strong relationship with the United States, and he worked to improve British links to continental Europe. Blair cultivated good personal relations with United States president Bill Clinton, a leader with whom Blair was often compared, and he backed the Clinton administration’s major international initiatives, including U.S. policy toward Iraq. Blair was one of the strongest proponents of the air offensive launched in March 1999 by North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forces against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY, see Serbia and Montenegro) over Yugoslav actions in Kosovo. Blair’s government ... took pains to improve British relations with its European partners. It declared that the United Kingdom would sign the European Social Chapter on employee rights, although it declined to commit the country to adopting the EU’s new single currency prior to another general election.
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In 1983 Blair was elected to parliament along with 208 other Labour M.P.s (Members of Parliament), the smallest number since 1935. The Labour Party was in crisis. The crippling public-sector strikes by several unions in the winter of 1978 had contributed to the widespread Tory victory in 1979 because the general populace saw the Labour Party as being controlled by the unions. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's re-election in 1983 was seen as a resounding defeat for the left wing of the Labour Party, and so in October of 1983, Neil Kinnock became the new leader of the party.
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