A Journey_ My Political Life Part 36

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lv) With General Sir Charles Guthrie, left, and General Mike Jackson, right, at the British army HQ near Skopje in Macedonia on the same visit [image]

lvi) Millennium night celebrations on the Embankment in London the fireworks did not go quite to plan, 1 January 2000 [image]

lvii) Singing 'Auld Lang Syne' with the Queen and Prince Philip at the Dome, 1 January 2000

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lviii) Once I was prime minister, the boundaries between work and life became increasingly blurred. On the phone in the middle of the Pyrenees, August 1999 [image]

lix) Leo George Blair was the first child born to a serving prime minister in 150 years

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lx) Carrying baby Leo as we arrived at Florence airport, August 2000 [image]

lxi) Bill Clinton after a swim at Chequers, pushing Leo in his buggy [image]

lxii) Finding time to strum my beloved guitar in Italy

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lxiii) The Chief of the Defence Staff, Sir Charles Guthrie, arrives in Freetown, Sierra Leone, to a.s.sess the situation on the ground, 14 May 2000 [image]

lxiv) A British soldier meets a young local boy during a patrol through a western suburb of Freetown, 10 May 2000

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lxv) Robin Cook meets Fatoun Korumain, who was injured by the rebel fighters, 8 June 2000 [image]

lxvi) Inspecting the troops, Sierra Leone, 9 February 2002. I am immensely proud of what we achieved there

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lxvii) The fuel crisis of November 2000 was rapidly followed by the foot-and-mouth outbreak the following February [image]

lxviii) Visiting Scotland with the army during foot-and-mouth, March 2001

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lxix) Celebrating Labour's second election victory with Cherie, 8 June 2001 [image]

lxx) My dad was so proud that we had won a second term

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lxxi) Leo's first appearance on the steps of No. 10 with me and Cherie later that day [image]

lxxii) My first meeting with George W. Bush following his election as president, at Camp David, 23 February 2001

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lxxiii) George and Laura Bush visited the UK in July 2001. On the terrace at Chequers, 19 July 2001 [image]

lxxiv) At Chequers with Cherie, Leo and George W. Bush, 19 July 2001

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lxxv) I was about to address the TUC conference in Brighton on 11 September 2001, when the devastating news of the attacks on the Twin Towers, main picture, started to come through. I made a brief statement and returned immediately to Downing Street to convene emergency meetings

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lxxvi) In New York with mayor Rudolph Giuliani, left, and governor George Pataki, right, after a memorial service for the British victims of the 9/11 attacks, 20 September 2001 [image]

lxxvii) At a press conference with George W. Bush at the White House, before he addressed a joint session of Congress, 20 September 2001

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lxxviii) With Hamid Karzai in Kabul, Afghanistan, 2002 [image]

lxxix) Months of negotiations on Iraq came to a head during the Azores summit. With, left to right, Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar, George W. Bush and Portuguese prime minister Jose Manuel Barroso, 16 March 2003

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lx.x.x) With Kofi Annan at the United Nations headquarters in New York, March 2003 [image]

lx.x.xi) Meeting British troops at Camp Bastion in Helmand Province, November 2006

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lx.x.xii) Working on my Commons speech for the Iraq debate, 15 March 2003 [image]

lx.x.xiii) Gathering my thoughts before a Downing Street press conference on the Middle East peace process, 14 March 2003 [image]

lx.x.xiv) Last-minute thoughts and preparations with the inner team moments before I stepped into the chamber

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lx.x.xv) The crucial debate in the House of Commons, 18 March 2003 [image]

lx.x.xvi) The War Cabinet meets in Downing Street, 20 March 2003

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lx.x.xvii): with Jacques Chirac at the European Council, 24 March 2003. Right: Right: with the Chief of the Defence Staff, Sir Mike Boyce, in the den in Downing Street, 23 March 2003 with the Chief of the Defence Staff, Sir Mike Boyce, in the den in Downing Street, 23 March 2003 [image]

lx.x.xviii) At Camp David with Alastair Campbell, George W. Bush, Tom Kelly, Matthew Rycroft, David Manning and Jonathan Powell, 27 March 2003

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lx.x.xix) Security briefing at Hillsborough during George W. Bush's visit, with Condoleezza Rice, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer, Jack Straw, Colin Powell and Alastair Campbell, April 2003 [image]

xc) Addressing the joint session of the US Congress, 18 July 2003. It was one of my most important speeches

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xci) As the Iraq War continued, there were protests outside the Royal Courts of Justice where the Hutton Inquiry was being held, 28 August 2003 [image]

xcii) Returning from the Green Zone after a visit to troops in Baghdad, 2003

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xciii) Leaving Downing Street to give evidence to the Hutton Inquiry, 28 August 2003 [image]

xciv) The statue of Saddam Hussein being toppled in Baghdad after the arrival of US troops, 9 April 2003

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xcv) The loyal and dedicated Alastair Campbell left Downing Street, 29 August 2003 [image]

xcvi) Bono addressed the Labour Party Conference on world poverty in 2004 [image]

xcvii) With David Blunkett at the 2005 conference

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xcviii) Ice creams with Gordon on the campaign trail, 2 May 2005. I insisted on getting a flake [image]

xcvix) With youngsters on the way to a drop-in centre in the North-East [image]

c) Receiving the Queen's invitation to form a new government following our historic re-election on 5 May 2005 for a third term

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ci) The Middle East peace process continued. A press conference with Ariel Sharon in Jerusalem, 22 December 2004 [image]

cii) Shimon Peres in front of a picture of Yitzhak Rabin, two key figures in the peace process. Jerusalem, 19 July 2004 [image]

ciii) With Ya.s.ser Arafat for talks in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, 1 November 2001

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civ) Under the media spotlight, Angela Merkel, Jacques Chirac and I talk during the G8 in St Petersburg, 17 July 2006 [image]

cv) TV cameras crowded in as I visited the floods in Gloucester in November 2000 [image]

cvi) Walking along the beach with the leaders of the G8 at the Sea Island summit, Georgia, in June 2004

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cvii) Bob Geldof, the force behind the worldwide Live 8 concerts of 2 July 2005 [image]