Prime Minister Tony Blair, one of Britain’s most influential and long-serving leaders in a century, announced Thursday that he will step down on June 27, leaving behind a legacy of economic and political achievement mixed with deep public anger over his partnership with President Bush in the Iraq War according to the Washington Post.
“On the 27th of June I will tender my resignation as prime minister to the office of the queen,” Blair said at the Trimdon Labor Club in his home constituency of Sedgefield, speaking to Labor Party supporters in the building where he launched his political career as a 30-year-old lawyer almost 24 years ago to the day. “I’ve come back here to Sedgefield to my constituency, where my political journey began and where it’s fitting that it should end.”
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