2.  Tony Blair is elected as Labour MP for Sedgefield.  On July 6 th, he made his maiden speech in the House of Commons.

3.  New Labour party leader Neil Kinnock appoints Blair as Assistant Spokesman on Treasury matters.  In 1987, he was Appointed Deputy spokesman for Trade and Industry.

4.  In October of 1988, Blair was elected by the Parliamentary Labour Party to shadow the cabinet.  In 1989, he was elected to be a member of the National Executive Committee of the Labour party.

5.  Promoted to shadow Home Secretary in 1992.  July 21 st, 1994, he beats John Prescott and Margaret Beckett to become leader of the Labour Party  October of 1994, Blair makes his first party conference speech as a leader.

6.  March: The Sun newspaper announces it will back Blair at the general election.  May 1 st Labour wins the general election. At age 44, Blair becomes the second-youngest British prime minister.

7.  Britain as a part of NATO, joins in the Kosovo war.  Britain and USA launch air strikes against Iraq after reports that Saddam Hussein is not complying with the United Nations weapons inspections.

8.  After September 11 th, Blair emerges as the strongest ally of President Bush’s administration. He supported the “war on terror.”

9.  On February 3 rd, Blair attacks “wreckers” within the Party who stand in the way of public service reforms.  Blair shows an intelligence dossier, and says that it shows that Iraq could deploy banned weapons.

10.  Blair argues for overthrow of leader Saddam Hussein.  Blair, Bush, and Jose Aznar announce they will seek support for military action against Iraq.  On July 17 th, he addresses US congress to accept the Congressional Gold medal.  Blair suffers irregular heartbeat and spends a couple hours in the hospital on October 19 th.

11.  February: Blair names a panel to conduct an inquiry into pre- war intelligence. This was led by Lord Butler.  On September 15th, Blair makes a speech on climate changes.

12.  May 5 th, Blair becomes first leader oft eh Labour party to win three consecutive terms as prime minister.  November 9 th, Blair suffers his first defeat in the House of Commons on the Terrorism Act.

13.  September 12 th, Blair makes his last speech to the Trades Union Congress.  September 26 th, he makes his final speech as the leader of the Labour Party.  May 10 th, 2007, he makes his official announcement that Blair will resign as Prime Minister on June 27 th.