Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is returning to the international limelight as the prospective head of an authority tasked with the reconstruction of Gaza.
Blair would bring years of political and negotiating experience to the task after occupying 10 Downing Street for a decade and later acting as an international envoy in the Middle East.
Just a year into his premiership in 1998, Blair sealed, with US mediation, one of his signature achievements in office – the Good Friday Agreement that brought peace to Northern Ireland. He was then 43, the youngest British prime minister since 1812.
Eight years earlier, in a moment of rare public reflection, the enigmatic Blair was asked why he had gone into politics.
“I suppose you just look at the world around you. Think things are wrong. Want to change it,” he said.
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