Authors: Tony Blair
Tags: #Biography & Autobiography, #Historical, #Personal Memoirs, #History, #Modern, #21st Century, #Political Science, #Political Process, #Leadership, #Military, #Political
xxix) The moment our lives changed. Kathryn waves from the window of our old home as Cherie and I head to the Palace
xxx) Walking along Downing Street for the first time, I felt the emotion run like a charge through the crowd
xxxi) After an hour’s sleep, Cherie and I arrived at Buckingham Palace on the morning of 2 May 1997. Supporters lined the streets
xxxii) As prime minister, on the steps of No. 10. We were the youngest family to have lived there since the 1850s
xxxiii) Down to business with, right to left, Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan, Peter Mandelson and Alastair Campbell, Downing Street, 10 July 1997
xxxiv)
Clockwise from top:
some of the inner team. Peter Mandelson could tell you what people would be thinking tomorrow; Anji Hunter, possessed of a naturally intuitive political instinct; Jonathan Powell, a key operative in government; Sally Morgan, superbly attuned to the party; Philip Gould, chief pollster, and central to our strategy
xxxv) In the sunshine of the Downing Street garden, at the end of May 1997 with Bill Clinton
xxxvi) With Bill and Hillary Clinton and Cherie at Tower Bridge the same day
xxxvii) The Clintons meet the family at Downing Street
xxxviii) As fellow third-way progressives, Bill and I had a natural bond
xxxix) On the international stage at the G7 summit in Denver, Colorado, with Bill Clinton and Helmut Kohl, centre
xl) Prince Charles and I flank Chris Patten, the last governor of Hong Kong, at the handover ceremony to China, 1 July 1997
xli) Among leaders at the NATO summit, July 1997. Helmut Kohl makes a point to me as, left to right, Jacques Chirac, Jean-Claude Juncker, Walter Neuer and Romano Prodi look on