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The Final Chapter.(Tony Blair)

Newsweek International

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There's an unsettling symmetry to the political lives of Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair. Both cast long shadows around the globe, she as the free-market scourge of communism, he as America's stalwart ally at war. Both are bound in British history as the most important (and longest-serving) prime ministers of the last half century.

The Iron Lady and her Conservative Party dominated British politics for more than a decade. Blair's Labour Party humiliated them in 1997, a loss from which the Tories have never recovered. A second landslide followed in 2001. Suddenly, Blair had within his grasp the fulfillment of Harold Wilson's dream of turning Labour into "the ...

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