Political Research

When we came up with our idea to have a political twist to our video/CD etc, we new that we needed to research current politics and increase our basic knowledge.

Tony Blair

Anthony Charles Lynton Blair was born 6 May 1953 and is a former British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007; he resigned from all these positions in June 2007.As the casualties of the Iraq War mounted, Blair was accused of misleading Parliament and his popularity dropped dramatically.

Gordon Brown

James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951) is a British Labour Party politician, who has been a Member of Parliament since 1983. He served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 until 2010. Brown became Prime Minister in June 2007, after the resignation of Tony Blair and three days after becoming leader of the governing Labour Party. Immediately before this, he had served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Labour Government from 1997 to 2007. His tenure ended in May 2010, when he resigned as Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party.

David Cameron

David William Donald Cameron born 9 October 1966 is the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service and Leader of the Conservative Party.

In the 2010 general election held on 6 May, the Conservatives gained a plurality of seats in a hung parliament and Cameron was appointed Prime Minister on 11 May 2010, at the head of a coalition between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats.
 

Nick Clegg

Nicholas William Peter "Nick" Clegg born 7 January 1967 is a British Liberal Democrat politician who is the Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Lord President of the Council and Minister for Constitutional and Political Reform in the coalition government of Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron. Clegg is the Leader of the Liberal Democrats and is the Member of Parliament for Sheffield Hallam.