Part 36 (1/2)

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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, pus.h.i.+ng 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]