David Reed (politician) and public relations. From 1990 to 2005, he was Director of Corporate Communications for Whitbread. The Sedgefield constituency was re-created in boundary changes for the 1983 general election, when future Prime Minister Tony Blair was elected as its MP. David Reed (politician) David Reed (24 April 1945 - 12 March 2017) was a Labour politician in the United Kingdom. In 1970, he was elected at the age of just 25 as Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield in County Durham. However, the constituency was abolished for the February 1974 general election, and Reed has not returned to Parliament since. In
Premiership of Tony Blair "The British Presidency: Tony Blair and the Politics of Public Leadership". Foley uses Blair’s premiership as a case study to further the ‘presidentialisation thesis’, which is a model used to study the growing power of the British Prime Minister at the behest of the Cabinet, and the Parliament. According to Foley, centralisation of power under Blair, and his broader conduct in office points to the cementing of presidential tendencies in British politics. He writes: “The British Prime Minister has evolved, and is evolving away from what a Prime Minister used to do and used to be… Blair’s premiership represents another