tony blair

Ok, my scenario features multiple PoDs: 1)The 1993 WTC bombings are successful and and the ''War on Terror'' starts 8 years earlier. US is not involved in either Afghanistan or Iraq and instead atatcks Sudan (which hosted Al-Qaeda back then) and generally focuses more on Africa during 1990s-...

Several months ago, a story was bought up in the British media several times (just google "avian flu outbreak warning 1997") about a warning from UK scientists in 1997 that a severe avian flu pandemic was on the way, possibly from the far east. Obviously, and thankfully, this never happened -...

BREAKING- Prime Minister injured in London Bomb Attack - BBC News - 26th June 1999 The Prime Minister Tony Blair and several other people have been badly injured in a bomb attack presumed to be targeting him in London. The bombing is reported to have happened near Aldgate Tube station, and...

Since the creation the end of the Rhodesian Bush War and the signing of the Lancaster House Agreement in 1979 which led to the transformation of Rhodesia into Zimbabwe relations between the United Kingdom and its former colony have generally been less than friendly. Various sources have...

During my first year at University one of my projects was to design a dream constitution/political system. I held onto it and over the years I was thinking about what the UK would look like with my magic constitution. The result was this TL. 1999, New Alliances President Blair's already...

If Tony Blair didn’t help in the invasion of Iraq, would he keep his 100+ majority in 2005? How would this effect future elections?

Just as the tin says, your challenge is to make it so that the House of Lords Act 1999, or an act identical to it, is not passed with a post-1963 POD.

The Iraq War seems to me to have profoundly affected the British political landscape, mainly to the effect of boosting the Liberal Democrats while weakening the Labour Party, and Tony Blair himself. How would recent British political history have played out, had Blair decided against following...

After Gordon Brown succeeded Tony Blair in 2007, many expected the new PM to call a general election. At the time Brown was enjoying a honeymoon period and Labour was leading in the polls. However, Brown decided not to call an election. The following year Labour slipped in the polls in the midst...

Hague Announces New Commitment To Europe Referendum 20th May 1999: “In an announcement this week in the lead up to the European Parliament Election William Hague ,Conservative Party Leader, has announced that a Conservative Government would have a referendum on EU membership ‘within our first...

In 1997, Labour entered the UK General Election with a 24% lead with the polls. They ended with a 13% lead in votes but a supermajority regardless. In 2017 the Conservatives entered the election with a 25% lead in the polls, but ended with only a 3% lead in votes and a minority government...

A fairly simple challenge: With a POD of May the 2nd 1997, have the Conservatives win the 2001 general election (or 2002, if Blair decides to wait until Parliament runs its course).

With a POD at any time after Tony Blair was elected Labour leader in 1994, how can he win a landslide similar to OTL's 418 in 1997 but then suffer a humiliating setback to somewhere around 310-330 seats, facing a strong Conservative bounce-back in 2001 (or thereabouts, I know the 2001 election...

IOTL, the Conservatives did quite well at the 2005 General Election, recovering from their harrowing results in 1997 and 2001 and winning 198 seats to position the Party on a clear springboard to challenge Labour in 2010. But what if the Conservatives did better, and won the General Election...

For those not in the know, in the 1970s the British Labour Party moved further and further to the left, to the point where a "Gang of Four", four senior moderate Labour politicians split off from Labour to create the centrist Social Democratic Party, which then proceeded to form an electoral...

What if the outcome of the 2005 UK election had been a hung parliament? The election was relatively close in the popular vote with Labour winning with just 35% and by a margin of under 3%, however the Tories were unable to effectively seize on Blair and Labour's unpopularity and Tony Blair...

This is very much a modern version of the "Permanent Butskellism" counterfactual in the Nick Hancock/Chris England book based around Gordon Banks playing in the 1970 quarter-final, as opposed to the much bleaker, Powellian version that many will be familiar with. As in that case, there are a...

What if Tony Blair resigned as prime Minister after his heart attack scare in October 2003, or had resigned around that time in 2004? Maybe if the heart attack doesn't work the Hartlepool by-election is won by the LibDems and that could force Blair out? I think @PresidentGore did a TL on this...

What's the deal here? This is a timeline focusing on British politics from 2001 onwards, specifically surrounding Tony Blair's government What do you mean by 'New Blair, New Britain' ? You'll have to wait and see... Isn't that a play on 'New Labour, New Britain' ? Yep Does this mean Blair...

The Noblest Work “With the sudden death of John Smith, both Britain and the Labour Party have lost a man so mild, so unassuming, so modest, yet so very great,” read the obituary of John Smith in The Times. A bland figure even to his name, once compared to a default character in a video game...