Blair Wins General Election

Tony Blair was born May 6, 1953, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Blair received his education from the Durham Choristers School in Durham, England, and at Fettes College in Edinburgh. Blair earned his law degree in 1975 from St. John's College at Oxford University. Tony Blair was first elected to Britain's House of Commons in 1983, where he served in various shadow cabinets of the Labour Party for the next decade. In July of 1994, he assumed leadership of the Labour Party after the death of former party leader John Smith in May. As party leader, Tony Blair repositioned the party. He committed

Another reason for the Labour Party victory was John Major. John Major was a very popular Prime Minister right after the Gulf War, but that eventually changed. His popularity declined because of divisions in his own party over Europe and because of accusations of government sleaze. In a poll taken in July, 1994, only about 20% of voters were satisfied with his performance as prime minister. About 75% of the public -- and more than two-fifths of all declared Conservatives -- were dissatisfied with Major. John Major’s party support was also hurt by a series of political and sex scandals. The largest one was the “cash-for-questions” affair, in which members of parliament were accused of tabling parliamentary questions in exchange for bribes from wealthy businessmen. The people of England also felt that the country was in need of fresh ideas. The Conservative party had been in control for 18 years and many people felt that it would be in the best interest of the country to change leadership.

the party to stress the ideas that were important to the overall electorate. He even referred to his party as “The New Labour Party.” Blair stressed a tough but liberal crime policy, a readiness for a free market economy, and he was also in full support of England’s participation in the European community. Blair had dismantled traditional Labour party policies, and in doing so he had made the Labour Party more “electabl

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