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How did Tony Blair's election win in 1997 change British politics? | BBC Newscast

Today, we start the first of six Old Newscasts looking at the story of 30 years of British Politics through six votes.

We start in 1997, when the Prime Minister John Major called an election, hoping

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Malvinas Argentinas 🇦🇷
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History is still shaping today’s politics. Whether you agree or disagree, it’s worth hearing different perspectives before reaching a conclusion.
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@ajh4654 From YouTube ↗ 26 Jul 2026 3
The director general of the orchestrated chaos we find ourselves in today
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Blair is at the root of where the UK is now … 270 languages are spoken in London that’s your multiculturalism what has it given us a loss of a nation and its historic second term that really cemented the decline of the UK and to finance his massive promises he sold 400 tonnes of our gold reserves most of which we nicked off the Spanish Portuguese and French 400 years before …. We have not put 1 tonne back into our reserves since that time ….Bankrup both morally and financially …..
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The bike bloke . Thank god for careless motorists
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the absolute evil of Tony Blair
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Changed ? It was business as usual...
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The cradh of 92? Need to look that up..
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Nice that Tony gets a clap as i think it was well deserved for achieving..
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Jeremy Vime such a cheerleader get the pom poms out...only kidding😉
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A TV is always good for news across the world like it was very effective for virus outbreaks like covid and to catch up on African news..
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I know Gordon Brown is a big Rod Stewart fan who likes to take holidays in Irvine and loves his calendonian bus trips too and used to ride motorbiles..
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1997 Blair represents that kind of liberal "hopey-changey" politics that peaked with Obama and Trudeau. And is thankfully never coming back. It was all symbolism and no substance.
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What happened to the spam fritters?😂
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I have no background knowledge of 90s British politics and can't relate to the names and events mentioned here, but looking forward to Newscast 30 years from now holding retrospectives on the current political moment 🤭
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My uncle and aunt moved from Oxford to Glasgow in 1997.
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This was the beginning of the hellscape Britain is today 😢
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I'm french, when I was a teenager, great Britain was the place we all wanted to live in. The music, the movies, the British sense of humor, my English teacher.i was watching Benny hill every Sunday night on french TV. It was so fun. John Major was the prime minister at that time, I don't know why but he liked that man. He seemed very humble and respectful. But I don't no much about British political life
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It destroyed our once great nation