Sedgefield (UK Parliament constituency) the Member of Parliament was Tony Blair; who led a successful campaign for his party to win the 1997 general election in a landslide and thereafter served for ten years as the Prime Minister, leading the campaigns at two subsequent general elections. Blair was the first Prime Minister to lead the Labour Party to three consecutive victories. He resigned as the Member of Parliament for Sedgefield on the same day as he resigned as Prime Minister, which triggered a by-election. At the by-election on 19 July 2007, the official Labour Party candidate Phil Wilson was elected on a reduced majority
Blair ministry Michael Howard, who stood unopposed for the leadership role and took control without a leadership contest. The election on 5 May 2005 saw Labour win a historic third successive term in power, though their majority now stood at 66 seats – compared to 167 four years earlier – and they failed to gain any new seats. Blair had already declared that the new term in parliament would be his last. These are the cabinets under Prime Minister Tony Blair (from May 1997 to June 2007). The first Blair ministry lasted from May 1997 to June 2001. The second Blair ministry