THOUGHTS FROM THE BREXIT VOTE
“A country that elected Tony Blair Prime Minister at forty-three has a future”. These are the words of one of my university professors which often echo and resonate in my mind whenever I am high, high in thought of course and not intoxication from abundance of new wine. For the records, my teacher was not wrong after all. Mr. Blair, no doubt, repositioned himself as a huge force in British politics for a decade with his style and pattern of leadership. Elected to the position of the British Prime Minister in 1997, Blair entered 10 Downing Street with the strength, vigour and zest of youth after crushing the Conservative Prime Minister John Major in an election that still remains one of the best for the Labour Party in British history. Mr. Blair still went ahead to win two more elections with considerable but declining landslides in 2001 and 2005 respectively. Many Blair admirers are often captured as saying that as long as Tony Blair continued to run, he continued to w