Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British
Labour Party politician, who served as the
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007. He now runs a consultancy business and performs charitable work. Blair was the
Member of Parliament (MP) for
Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and
Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. Blair led Labour to a landslide victory in the
1997 general election, winning 418 seats, the most the party has ever held. The party went on to win two more elections under his leadership: in
2001, in which it won another landslide victory, and in
2005, with a reduced majority.