A backbench MP and future Labour leader who was a thorn in Tony's side for voting against the party whip
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Orizzontali
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Blair made extensive efforts to influence the coverage of this public broadcaster
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The nickname for the agreement reached between the UK, Northern Irish parties, and the Republic of Ireland to establish peace and a devolved government
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What skeptics say the Iraq War really was
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The acronym for orders of commendation given by the Monarch, of which Blair has one of the highest possible (a KG)
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Blair famously described this royal as "the people's princess"
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The surname of the second Conservative leader Blair faced and defeated; or, the city in which war criminals are tried
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A type of organization the Labour Party was created to represent - and a type whose interests Blair was accused of frequently ignoring
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Another nickname for the royal in 11 Across
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Blair faced off against, and defeated, this incumbent Prime Minister in 1997
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Blair _____, a nickname for the 101 female Labour MPs elected in 1997
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The acronym for the Muslim Association of Britain, which sharply criticized Blair's Iraq decisions
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Sometimes nicknamed "the government purse", Gordon Brown was in charge of this
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A nickname for the monarch Blair served under
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Perhaps the sound that Gordon Brown made when he found out Blair was going for a third term (this isn't good I just need to fill this out)
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The UK's most popular daily newspaper, a usually right-leaning tabloid that endorsed Labour in all three elections with Blair as leader
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Blair's wife
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Bill and Hillary, close friends of Tony's
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What the Blair family is now, after buying up tons of properties
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"Things can only get ______", a hit song that was also a slogan for Labour's 1997 campaign
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A backbench MP and future Labour leader who was a thorn in Tony's side for voting against the party whip
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An alleged nickname Tony had while a junior barrister
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The type of degree Blair earned at St John's College
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The decision on whether to enter into this type of union with Europe haunted Blair's first and second terms
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"__, Blair!", a weirdly casual greeting George Bush was alleged to have said while in Iraq with Tony
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The Blair government introduced a minimum for this for the first time in UK history
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What 71% of Britons did in 1997, resulting in a landslide Labour victory
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The Millennium ____, an expensive structure built to commemorate the year 2000 that was seen by critics to symbolize Blair's style-over-substance approach
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The decision to invade this country in the Middle East is often seen as Blair's defining legacy
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The castle in which, while staying with the royal family, Tony and his wife conceived their fourth child
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____field, the constituency Blair represented as an MP for his whole ministerial career
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Blair had trouble convincing this president to stop calling him "sir" on phone calls
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Tony's longtime deputy
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Blair was frequently accused of planning to become President of this when he was done being PM
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The acronym for the governing body of the Labour Party
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The health agency that the Labour government was credited with increasing investment in during their tenure
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"I feel the ____ of history upon our shoulders," a soundbite uttered by Blair moments after saying "A day like today is not a day for soundbites"
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The voting system Blair chose for European Parliament elections, after decades of FPTP