Blair ministry the May 1997 election with a 179-seat majority. The Prime Minister Tony Blair, who turned 44 years old days after leading Labour to victory, was the youngest Prime Minister of the twentieth century. Blair quickly wiped away memories of the troubled Labour governments led by Harold Wilson and James Callaghan in the 1960s and 70's as the economic recovery continued and unemployment continued to fall. While other developed countries, notably Japan, were hit by a financial crisis during Blair's first term in office, the British economy remained strong. In September 2000, however, protests against fuel prices intensified across the country
Tony Blair Star", he was portrayed by Christian Brassington. When Blair resigned as Prime Minister, Robert Harris, a former Fleet Street political editor, dropped his other work to write "The Ghost". The CIA-influenced British prime minister in the book is said to be a thinly disguised version of Blair. The novel was filmed as "The Ghost Writer" with Pierce Brosnan portraying the Blair character, Adam Lang. Stephen Mangan portrays Blair in "The Hunt for Tony Blair" (2011), a one-off "The Comic Strip Presents..." satire presented in the style of a 1950s film noir. In the film, he is wrongly implicated in the