David Gray's pictures of the week 2-7-2007

DAVID GRAY photography
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The picture set this week remembers Tony Blair, our Prime Minister from May 1997 to June 2007. He seems to have dominated domestic politics throughout the past decade, but perhaps he will be forgotten sooner than we might now imagine. His legacy, for which he still doubtless entertains much pious hope and expectation, has been irredeemably soured by Iraq. The levers of power are now manipulated by his arch rival Gordon Brown, who has already removed many Blairites from the Cabinet. Blairism was in truth just a subset and update of Thatcherism and Margaret Thatcher cast a more memorable (and darker) shadow over British history than Blair ever did. But now, thank goodness, they are both gone.

Newspaper placard at the Labour Party conference in Brighton in September 2000 (image 1790-11)

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