Blair in retrospect
China Daily | Updated: 2010-08-29 07:00
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Tony Blair is due to be awarded the prestigious Liberty Medal, a US version of the Nobel Peace Prize, at the start of his book tour next month. Jack Guez / Agence France-Presse |
Despite his grin, his teeth and his ears, "Tony Blair is not the gift to cartoonists and impersonators that his immediate predecessors were," wrote the Independent newspaper's Brett Kahr in a 1999 profile of the youngest prime minister (at the time) since 1812.
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