By 1896 the new movie projector required a fully transparent film base that Blair's American operation could not supply.

Whilst many people in the UK recall ' Black Wednesday ' as a national disaster, some conservatives claim that the forced ejection from the ERM was a " Golden Wednesday " which paved the way for an economic revival, the Conservatives handing Tony Blair's New Labour a much stronger economy in 1997 than had existed in 1992as the new economic policy swiftly devised in the aftermath of Black Wednesday led to re-establishment of economic growth with falling unemployment and inflation ( the latter of which had already been falling before Black Wednesday ).

After Gordon Brown was named as Blair's successor, B ' Stard's final column implied that, bored with the UK and unable to tolerate a Brown premiership, Alan would quit the country to take up a new position as Head of the World Bank, leaving the door open to a potential return.

Blair's career took a new turn in the 1980s, as she starred in a number of successful low-budget horror and exploitation films, including Hell Night ( 1981 ), Chained Heat ( 1983 ) and Savage Streets ( 1984 ).

In Blair's second term, Stuart was appointed as one of the UK Parliamentary Representatives to the European Convention, which was tasked with drawing up a new constitution for the European Union.

On the left, New Statesman has unfavourably likened his " new style of politics " to Tony Blair's early leadership years.

Blair's company supplied film to Edison for five years.

From 1895, Eastman supplied their motion picture roll film in rolls of 65 feet, while Blair's rolls were 75 feet.

Young was a strong proponent of European integration, and sharply expressed his disappointment with the British government's eurosceptic politics in his columns, including Prime Minister Tony Blair's decision to side with George W. Bush instead of his EU partners in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

The Respect Party sought to challenge Prime Minister Tony Blair's New Labour Party from the left at the London Assembly and European Parliament elections in 2004, and gained a quarter of a million votes.

In December 2005, the phrase was used by British United Kingdom Independence Party ( UKIP ) Member of the European Parliament ( MEP ) Nigel Farage who said the French President Jacques Chirac was "... no cheese-eating surrender monkey, he ", in an unflattering comparison to Tony Blair during a session of the European Parliament following Blair's brokering of the EU budget deal.

Tomlinson is a friend of Arthur Scargill and often appears on party election broadcasts for Scargill's Socialist Labour Party, most recently for the 2009 European Parliament elections, being its most prominent celebrity supporter since its formation in 1996 following a split by left-wing Labour members in response to Tony Blair's re-writing of Clause IV which ended the party's commitment to nationalisation.

In Tony Blair's speech to the European Parliament on 23 June, he committed the UK Presidency to try to " resolve some of the hard dossiers ", of which the Services Directive was one.

After helping to organise Tony Blair's leadership campaign, Allen was given a series of shadow portfolios, including transport and constitution, but in office he never rose higher than government whip.

His voting record shows him to be against many of Tony Blair's policies, including ID cards, student top-up fees and the Iraq war.

Tony Blair's Co-operative Commission, chaired by John Monks, made major recommendations for the co-operative movement, including the organization and marketing of the retail societies.

Under Blair's leadership the party abandoned many policies it had held for decades and embraced many of the measures enacted during Thatcher's tenure as Prime Minister, including the Building Societies ( deregulation ) Act of 1986.

Country Music's top stars, including Garth Brooks, Taylor Swift, Tim McGraw, Blake Shelton, and Reba McEntire have made it a point to appear on Blair's show to promote their projects.

A dogged investigator and exponent of Freedom of Information, his consistent questioning of Peter Mandelson led to Mandelson's second resignation from government, and he has also raised issues about Lord Birt and his role as Tony Blair's adviser.

He was asked by Tony Blair to produce a report on solutions to crime in 2000, and served as advisor to the Prime Minister on Criminal Justice from 2000 – 2001, although Blair's decision to ask Birt for a " private " report on crime irritated Jack Straw and the Home Office.

As Blair's Strategy Advisor, Birt supervised the development of long-term strategy on drugs, health, crime reduction, education, transport and London.

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

Other guest roles included the boyfriends of the girls ; Jo's parents, played by Alex Rocco and Claire Malis ; Blair's parents, played by Nicolas Coster and Marj Dusay ( Blair's mother was played by Pam Huntington in one episode during the first season ); Tootie's parents, played by Kim Fields ' real-life mother, actress Chip Fields, and Robert Hooks ; and Natalie's parents, played by Norman Burton and Mitzi Hoag.

Levy ran the Labour Leader's Office Fund to finance Blair's campaign before the 1997 general election and received substantial contributions from such figures as Alex Bernstein and Robert Gavron, both of whom were ennobled by Blair after he came to power.

In the 1994 Labour leadership election he acted as Brown's unofficial campaign manager, and according to Brown's biographer Paul Routledge, advised against him pulling out of the contest in Blair's favour.

On 6 December 1901, Lord Minto held a skating party on the Ottawa River, when Andrew George Blair's daughter Bessie, and potential rescuer Henry Albert Harper both drowned.

George Monbiot stated that Naidu's loss was in effect Mr. Tony Blair's loss, since it was Mr. Blair's policies that Naidu was seeking to implement.

Under Blair's administration, such reforms and improvements as the establishment of free city delivery, the adoption of a money order system, and the use of railway mail cars were instituted — the last having been suggested by George B. Armstrong ( d. 1871 ), of Chicago, who from 1869 until his death was general superintendent of the United States railway mail service.

Andrew George Blair's daughter Bessie, and Alex Creelman, fell through a patch of weak ice-though Creelman pulled himself to safety, Harper dove into the river to save Blair, and both ultimately drowned.

The discussions began in early 1993, while the party was still being led by Blair's predecessor John Smith, who died suddenly in May 1994.

This suggestion has been made by former ministers such as Clare Short and Chris Smith, in the media, and was made clear in the Butler Review, where Blair's style of " sofa government " was censured.

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith and Prime Minister Gordon Brown paid tribute to Blair's service.

Ida Blair's brother Charles Limouzin recommended St Cyprian's School, Eastbourne, East Sussex.

During the investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission ( IPCC ) into the wrongful shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell Tube station on 22 July 2005, Paddick stated that a member of the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Sir Ian Blair's private office team had believed the wrong man had been targeted just six hours after the shooting.

In verbal and written statements to the Independent Police Complaints Commission ( IPCC ) on their investigations into the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, he had stated that a member of the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Sir Ian Blair's private office team believed the wrong man had been targeted just six hours after the shooting.

Charles and Lynton are Tony Blair's middle names.

In the British general election the following year, Michael Howard promised to work towards having the prohibition removed if the Conservative Party gained a majority of seats in the House of Commons, but the election was won by Blair's Labour Party.

On 17 July 2003, Kelly, an employee of the Ministry of Defence, apparently committed suicide after being misquoted by BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan as saying that Tony Blair's Labour government had knowingly " sexed up " the " September Dossier ", a report into Iraq and weapons of mass destruction.

He served in Tony Blair's cabinet as Secretary of State for Scotland from 1997-1999 and was instrumental in the creation of the devolved Scottish Parliament in 1999.

By November 1891 William Dickson, at Edison's laboratory, was using Blair's stock for Kinetoscope experiments.

Blair's time at St. Cyprian's informed his essay " Such, Such Were the Joys "

The headmaster undertook to help Blair to win the scholarship, and made a private financial arrangement that allowed Blair's parents to pay only half the normal fees.

Blair's academic performance reports suggest that he neglected his academic studies, but during his time at Eton he worked with Roger Mynors to produce a College magazine, The Election Times, joined in the production of other publications — College Days and Bubble and Squeak — and participated in the Eton Wall Game.

Blair's maternal grandmother lived at Moulmein, so he chose a posting in Burma.

) Pitter's involvement in the move " would have lent it a reassuring respectability in Mrs Blair's eyes.

" Pitter had a sympathetic interest in Blair's writing, pointed out weaknesses in his poetry, and advised him to write about what he knew.

Jacintha Buddicom's account Eric & Us provides an insight into Blair's childhood.

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.

In 2000, London-wide government was restored, with the creation of the Greater London Authority ( GLA ) by Tony Blair's government, covering the same area of Greater London.

Prime Ministers Callaghan and Blair have been amongst the many in Britain of part-Irish ancestry, with Blair's mother coming from County Donegal.

Few then were surprised when Major's Conservatives lost the 1 May 1997 general election to Tony Blair's " New Labour ", although the immense scale of the defeat was not as widely predicted: in 1987 and 1992 the Conservatives had polled better than had been suggested by the opinion polls, but in 1997 this was no longer the case.

In December 2006, Major led calls for an independent inquiry into Tony Blair's decision to invade Iraq, following revelations made by Carne Ross, a former British senior diplomat, that contradict Blair's case for the invasion.

Rammell said: " I will today sign four bilateral agreements with my Libyan counterpart, Abdulatti al-Obidi, which will strengthen our judicial ties, as agreed during Tony Blair's visit to Libya in May last year.

Since 1990 two variants of this song have been heard-adapted for both her successors ; replacing ' Major ' for ' Maggie ' during the tenure of John Major and ' Tony ' for ' Maggie ' since Tony Blair's plan for the Iraq War in 2003.

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.