However, in the run-up to the 1997 general election, Labour opposition Tony Blair was in talks with Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown about forming a coalition government if Labour failed to win a majority at the election ; however there was never any need for a coalition to be formed as Labour won the election by a landslide.

However, Edward Heath, John Major and Tony Blair did not accept peerages of any kind, although Mr. Heath and Mr. Major were later appointed as Knights of the Garter.

However, P. Hunter Blair argued an alternative interpretation: that they emerged along the frontier of Northumbria and the inhabitants of the Trent river valley.

However, no family named Blair was in residence in the area at that time.

However, the relationship between Blair and Anderson has not been proven, and in the absence of documentation any connection to the Clifts remains in doubt.

However, in 2004, Bruce Blair, president of the Center for Defense Information stated: " I wouldn't be at all surprised if nuclear weapons are used over the next 15 or 20 years, first and foremost by a terrorist group that gets its hands on a Russian nuclear weapon or a Pakistani nuclear weapon ".

However, Blair and Nicholson worked closely together on this idea, with Nicholson often coming from Maryland for meetings on the subject.

However, two sections later became the centre of fierce debate: the allegation that Iraq had sought " significant quantities of uranium from Africa ", and the claim in the foreword to the document written by British Prime Minister Tony Blair that " The document discloses that his military planning allows for some of the WMD to be ready within 45 minutes of an order to use them.

However, an increasingly difficult relationship with Unionist parties meant her role in the talks was ultimately taken over by Tony Blair and his staff, prompting Mowlam to remark to then-US President Bill Clinton " Didn't you know?

However, in the wake of a poor Labour performance in the local council elections of 4 May 2006, Clarke was dismissed in the biggest cabinet upheaval in the history of the Blair governments, to be replaced by Defence Secretary John Reid.

However, he did state that although Tony Blair had lost his sense of purpose, he wanted to see Blair continue as PM.

However, with Blair and Brown typically in agreement on most political issues ( from Iraq to public sector reform ), commentators have noted that " the difference between Brownites and Blairites … is more tribal than ideological ".

However, Blair later snubbed Major by declining to invite him to a 2007 joint address to the House of Lords and House of Commons on the peace process.

However on 5 December 2006 she was defeated by Lloyd by 11 votes when she sought re-election, with her closeness to Tony Blair being cited as a reason for her defeat.

However, this was to lead to the very outcome Tony Blair had wanted to prevent, the election of Rhodri Morgan as leader of the Welsh Assembly.

However, with the resignation of Blair on 27 June 2007, the entire issue of impeachment may now be moot.

However, the leaders of both countries express hope that conflict could be avoided amid a massive international diplomatic effort, including a regional visit from UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.

However, shortly after coming to power, the Labour Party under Prime Minister Tony Blair abolished the student maintenance grant system and introduced an up-front fee fixed at just over £ 1, 000 per year for all university students.

However, in August 2006, Uddin was a signatory to an open letter to Tony Blair criticising the UK's foreign policy.

However the stress on private devotion weakened the need for a bishop or a large institutional church of the sort Blair wanted.

However, in the late 1990s, the traditionally social-democratic Labour Party under the leadership of Tony Blair began to move towards a centrist Third Way policy platform, creating New Labour.

However, Lord Cranborne gave his party's approval without consulting the Leader, William Hague, who knew nothing and was embarrassed when Blair told him of it in the House of Commons.

However, Hanington faced a leader of the opposition, Andrew G. Blair who had organised the Liberal Party into a powerful force.

However, the parting was amicable as Kahn remained on the Borland board until November 7, 1996, when he resigned from that position.

However, the success did not last and Lajoie resigned during the 1909 season as manager but remained on as a player.

However, when Constantius arrived Vetranio willingly resigned his position and accepted Constantius ’ offer of a comfortable retirement in Bithynia.

However, when he and Reagan saw the direction in which the group was heading, they resigned the same night.

However Downer's well received tenure was marred by gaffes and controversies by the end of 1994, and he resigned as leader in January 1995.

However, it is also on record that Celestine V resigned by his own design after consultation with experts, and that Benedetto merely showed that it was allowed by Church law.

However, on 5 September 2008, after only 10 months in office, Mally resigned as prime minister of Togo.

However, he resigned the rectorate in April 1934, but remained a member of the Nazi party until 1945, even though Julian Young asserts that the Nazis eventually prevented him from publishing.

However, upon seeing Brutus was with the conspirators, he covered his face with his toga and resigned himself to his fate.

However, before he resigned, Nixon appointed Gerald Ford to the Vice Presidency in accordance with the Twenty-fifth Amendment.

However the programme did not find favour and two-thirds of Conservative MPs were against Lloyd George joining the National government, and some Cabinet members would have resigned if he had joined.

However, he now found the strain of public lecturing too much for him, and after two years he resigned.

However, he resigned only 2 months later in response to massive anti-government demonstrations.

However, learning that formal investigations were opened, he resigned as minister.

However, by January 15, of the following year Sauvé resigned as an MP, and thus as speaker, and two days later she was hospitalised ; rumours circulated that it was due to cancer, but the official story was that the she had contracted a respiratory virus, which was further complicated by an allergy to antibiotics.

However, due to the so-called Toblerone Affair, she took back her candidacy and also later resigned from the government.

However, Pitt resigned in February 1801 ( over King George's unwillingness to support Catholic emancipation in Ireland ), and was replaced by the more accommodating Henry Addington.

However, after a severe illness in 1232, he resigned all his benefices ( Abbotsely and Leicester ), but retained his prebend.

However, after 1936, he resigned from the Manchester Peace Council, urged British rearmament in the face of what Taylor considered to be the Nazi menace, and advocated an Anglo-Soviet alliance to contain Germany.

However, the effort was unsuccessful and in March 1926 de Valera, along with Lemass, resigned from the party.

However when the minority party in government, the Progressive Democrats, threatened to quit government unless Lenihan resigned or was sacked, and Lenihan refused to resign, the Taoiseach, Charles Haughey, instructed President Hillery to sack him.

However, Luisi resigned from the Staatskapelle chief conductorship in February 2010, with immediate effect, after reports that the Staatskapelle's management had secured a contract with the ZDF network for a scheduled televised concert on New Year's Eve, 2011, without consulting him at all in his capacity as the orchestra's GMD.

However, Solti abruptly resigned the position in 1961 without officially taking the post after learning that the Philharmonic board of directors failed to consult him before naming then 26 year-old Zubin Mehta to be assistant conductor of the orchestra.

However, after Raffarin resigned, he said that his decision was not based on the outcome of the vote.

However, Ratner resigned on November 8, 2011 after remarking that " rehearsal is for fags " and disparaging remarks about actress Olivia Munn a few days earlier.