Tony Blair
Tony Blair
Anthony Charles Lynton Blairis a British politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and the Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. Together with then-US President George W. Bush, he initiated the Iraq War with the invasion of Iraq, an act which remains highly controversial...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth6 May 1953
CityEdinburgh, Scotland
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There are bound to be disagreements over trade, partly because of the very strength of China's economic performance.
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We're not going to negotiate some new treaty on climate change ... What this is about is seeing whether it will be possible in the future to bring people back into consensus together. Can we do that? I don't know, but it's important that we at least begin a process of dialogue that allows us to make progress on this.
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There is no question here of a deal or trade-off. We are working very hard with the Romanian government to stop illegal immigration and to get to a point where visas are no longer necessary,
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There is no point in speculating what happens down the line if you reach an impasse. But there is a lot of processes that have to be gone through before you are at that point, not least the Security Council.
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We shouldn't get any agreement other than a good one. There's no point in going through the night and get any old agreement and ... so it is, in my view, entirely sensible to take the time to get it right.
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I think their real problem is that they have still not recovered from Mrs Thatcher going,
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Tomorrow's white paper on education marks a pivotal moment in the life of this parliament and this government,
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The police told me, and the security services back them up, that they may have stopped two further attempts since July 7, ... There are people we are tracking the whole time.
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The police and security services are saying this is absolutely necessary for the security of the country
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Though there may be pockets of resistance, the idea that this is some kind of tactical retreat is just the latest Taliban lie. They are in total collapse,
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We don't have a specific proposal on the table yet, ... But I understand and share the American concerns, as I've said many times before.
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We are absolutely delighted to have you here,
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we are absolutely at one on this: The answer to what is happening is to intensify the attacks.
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We're not saying that the future of Iraq should be governed by the Americans and the British, we're saying the future of Iraq should be governed by the Iraqi people.