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What distinguished Tony Blair among Prime Ministers?

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In 1997, when Blair led Labour to power for the first time since 1979, he became the youngest prime minister since William Pitt the younger (1783), victory at the polls in 2001, making him the first Labour prime minister to win to consecutive terms in office.

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