After the 2009 budget, the Sunday Times editorialised that Lamont's budget had been so badly received that he was out of his job within two months, " but it fixed the public finances and set up the prosperity of the 1990s and beyond " and Derek Scott, Tony Blair's economic adviser from 1997 to 2003, wrote that Lamont was " rightly praised " for putting in place the post-ERM framework, that stage of Lamont's career being " due for rerating since, in addition to designing a proper framework for monetary policy ( later consolidated by Bank of England independence in 1997 ), he also took most of the tough decisions on spending and tax to put the public finances on the road to recovery.

Blair's life was very full in both the public and the private spheres.

Blair's primary considerations are the issues of taste, language, style, and eloquence or public speaking.

In 2001, she joined Blair's cabinet as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, before becoming Health Secretary in 2005, chiefly remembered for getting smoking banned in public places, against heavy opposition.

As chair of the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments, Lang insisted that Tony Blair's paid work for UI Energy Corporation, an oil firm with interests in Iraq, just 14 months after leaving office should be made public following a period when the committee agreed to keep it confidential due to " market sensitivity ".

Additionally, Blair's sacking of Clark and another " old Labour " figure, Gavin Strang, was part of a plan by Blair to bring two Liberal Democrats into the Cabinet, a plan thwarted by John Prescott and others ( though it is highly likely the Liberal Democrats would not have accepted the plan anyway had it become public ).

It was associated with some of the policies of Tony Blair's New Labour, particularly issues of public service reform.

Blair's leadership role in the Iraq War helped him to sustain a strong relationship with Bush through to the end of his time as prime minister, but it was unpopular within his own party and lowered his public approval ratings.

Sid releases snippets of Blair's Sentinel paper to the press and the general public, who then hound Jim and Blair.

In their 1972 study, The Unknown Orwell, the writers Peter Stansky and William Abrahams note that at Eton Blair displayed a " sceptical attitude " to Christian belief, and that: " Shaw's preface to his recently published Androcles and the Lion in which an account of the gospels is set forth, very different in tone from what one would be likely to hear from an Anglican clergyman " was " much more to Blair's own taste.

Weston is a critic of the Iraq War, believing Tony Blair's argument for invasion simply did not hold water.

In a memo written by Blair's chief foreign adviser, Bush is paraphrased as saying: " The start date for the military campaign was now pencilled in for March 10.

In announcing his intention to run for the leadership, David Miliband declared that the New Labour era was over, and following the publication of Tony ' Blair's memoirs on 1 September 2010, Ed Miliband said " I think it is time to move on from Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and Peter Mandelson and to move on from the New Labour establishment and that is the candidate that I am at this election who can best turn the page.

While this work does not speak highly of Blair's skills as a literary critic, it does provide insight into Blair's own taste, a subject that is important to his later writing.

The result is arguably Blair's most important work: Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres.

As one of the first works to focus on written discourse, rather than solely on oral discourse, Blair's Lectures is a comprehensive, accessible prescriptive composition guide that combines centuries of theory in a cohesive form.

While Blair's outline of the requirements for an excellent speaker or writer is an important aspect of Lectures, the work covers a very broad scope of issues relating to composition.

While Blair's work is generally a safe composite of multiple theories, it contains many valuable insights, such as the aforementioned analysis of taste.

Blair's discussion of the history of written discourse is another important contribution to composition theory because this history was previously neglected.

One of Blair's more radical ideas is the rejection of Aristotelian figures of speech such as tropes.

Drawing on classic and modern theories, Blair's work is the most comprehensive prescriptive guide on composition in the 18th century.

Five days later, Times African-American op-ed columnist Bob Herbert asserted in his column that race had nothing to do with the Blair case: " Listen up: the race issue in this case is as bogus as some of Jayson Blair's reporting.

When they reach Blair's cabin they discover he is a Thing.

" On 26 June 2011, The Guardian reported on a memo from John Scarlett to Blair's foreign affairs adviser, released under the Freedom of Information Act, which referred to " the benefit of obscuring the fact that in terms of WMD Iraq is not that exceptional ".

The school is nationally recognized for its magnet program and Communication Arts Program ( CAP ), which draw students from both the Silver Spring area and across Montgomery County, and make up approximately 20 % of Blair's student population.

Chris Powell, BMP DDB Needham's chief executive until 2004, is the brother of Jonathan Powell, Tony Blair's Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister, and several people who served in the Labour Party's Shadow Communications Agency came from BMP.

The term is often used to describe individuals who supported Blair's leadership or those who supported his radical policies.

Blair's tenure is known for an expansion of LGBT rights such as the introduction of legal civil partnerships.

It is Blair's mission to help end this war for good, by destroying the Kilrathi homeworld of Kilrah.

He is a left-winger, a member of the Socialist Campaign Group and rebelled against Tony Blair's government.

He is a strong supporter of the Iraq war and has described Tony Blair's conduct of the war as clearly intentioned, carried through brilliantly and resulting in much improvement for the people of the country.

* See the biographical introduction prefixed to Blair's Poetical Works, by Dr Robert Anderson, in his Poets of Great Britain, vol.

He voted against the war in Iraq in 2003 and opposed the introduction of tuition fees in 2004, but on other matters-such as Tony Blair's reforms of the National Health Service, he remained loyal.

During Tony Blair's premiership, Labour Students opposed the Government's planned introduction of university " top-up " fees.

Blair's international debut came on 15 June 2002 against Canada and scored his first try for his country in the same game.

Scottish author Hugh Blair's 1763 A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian upheld the work's authenticity against Johnson's scathing criticism and from 1765 was included in every edition of Ossian to lend the work credibility.

For example, on 31 January 2006, Tony Blair's Government was defeated over certain aspects of proposals to outlaw religious hatred, and, on 9 November 2005, was defeated over plans which would have allowed police to detain terror suspects for up to 90 days without charge.

* In January 2000, filibustering orchestrated by Conservative MPs to oppose the Disqualifications Bill led to cancellation of the day's parliamentary business on Prime Minister Tony Blair's 1000th day in office.

He was defeated by John Prescott who would go on to become Tony Blair's Deputy Prime Minister.

The same day, on the BBC's Newsnight programme, Short called Blair's response " pompous " and said that Britain had no need to spy on Kofi Annan.

However, on 1 March 2004, Tony Blair's official spokesman refused to rule out such a step.

Blair's approach to government included a greater reliance on the media, using that to set the national policy agenda, rather than Westminster.

One of Tony Blair's first acts as prime minister was to replace the two 15-minute sessions with a single 30-minute session at noon on Wednesdays.

Lectures, a compilation of 47 of Blair's lectures given to students at the University of Edinburgh, serves as a practical guide for youth on composition and language ; a guide that makes Blair the first great theorist of written discourse.

Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres combines the fundamental principles of belletristic rhetoric and literary theory in a concise, accessible form.

After the authenticity of the Ossian poems was disproved, A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian caused a decline in Blair's credibility.

Lectures too did not maintain its popularity as theorists such as Whatley and Spencer, drawing on Blair's theories, dominated the domain of composition theory.

Blair's influence on decades of academics and theorists has ultimately affected the compositional theory of today.