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Article: The next prime minister of Britain? Labor's Tony Blair follows Bill Clinton's lead.
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- April 8, 1996
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Fresh from a well-received speech to the British Parliament last November, President Clinton spent a pleasant half-hour discussing the frustrations of leadership in an era of instant global communication with a sympathetic interlocutor: Tony Blair, the le ader of Her Majesty's loyal opposition. A "meeting of the minds," is how one witness describes the session. "They almost competed to see who agreed most."
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, 42, is fed up with being compared to Bill Clinton. Asked once if he had smoked cannabis, he replied: "No, I haven't. But if I had, you can be sure I would have inhaled." Yet the similarities in views and style are striking--a nd, if ...