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The Blairs’ hearts sank when they learnt that George Bush’s victory over Al Gore in 2000 had been ratified and that he was to become President of the United States, Cherie Blair reveals in The Times today. She tells how she and her husband watched Mr Bush on television and were concerned at his poor grasp of foreign affairs, but Mr Blair was determined to have a strong relationship with the Republican President. Although they had initial reservations about his political leanings she and her husband learnt to appreciate “a very funny, charming man with a quirky sense of humour”....

The Blairs’ hearts sank when they learnt that George Bush’s victory over Al Gore in 2000 had been ratified and that he was to become President of the United States, Cherie Blair reveals in The Times today. She tells how she and her husband watched Mr Bush on television and were concerned at his poor grasp of foreign affairs, but Mr Blair was determined to have a strong relationship with the Republican President. Although they had initial reservations about his political leanings she and her husband learnt to appreciate “a very funny, charming man with a quirky sense of humour”....

The fact that you already have several holes in your head doesn't mean you want another one. Imagine being Gordon Brown this weekend. You are still reeling from disastrous local election results and the loss of London to Boris Johnson. You trail a record 26 points behind David Cameron in the polls. Rebellion surges through your party's ranks: in Westminster, over the abolition of the 10p tax rate; in Scotland, over the proposed referendum on independence. Senior Labour figures say that there will be trouble - meaning a leadership challenge - if the party does not make serious progress by...

<p>British Prime Minister Tony Blair's wife posed naked for the artist Euan Uglow when she was an unknown lawyer-in-training in her mid-20s.</p> <p>For more than a year Cherie Booth earned £5 an hour modeling for the 5-foot painting "Striding Nude, Blue Dress," wearing a sleeveless dress open at the front. She was required to stand still for up to an hour at a time in Uglow’s freezing studios in Clapham, South London. The artist later painted a second version with another model.</p>

The Prime Minister's wife took her revenge on a profession that has bedevilled her for years when invited to address students at Roehampton University on Wednesday. She told a stunned audience that it was "not a noble calling" and journalists "have no ethics". Cherie Blair has launched an extraordinary ...

PRESIDENTIAL NEWS OF THE DAY: The President's vacation in Crawford ended today with his arrival back at the White House. He was accompanied by his two Scotties, but not the First Lady. She stayed on at the ranch another day before resuming her busy schedule campaigning for Republican candidates. Mrs. Bush will attend a Peter Roskam for Congress luncheon in Chicago tomorrow before flying to St. Louis where she will attend a Republican reception at a private residence. The event is closed to the press. Throughout the week, the First Lady will be stumping for Republican candidates in Kentucky, Ohio...

_ Tuesday, the President will participate in a National Security Council and Homeland Security Council briefing at the National Counterterrorism Center in McLean, Virginia. He will have a meeting with the counterterrorism team, attend lunch with the counterterrorism and homeland security teams, and also meet separately with the homeland security team. According to White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, these are long-scheduled meetings, and are not a reaction to the recently discovered plot to blow up flights between Britain and the United States. However, the investigation will be part of their discussion. _ Wednesday, the President will travel to York,...

Cherie Blair provoked surprise in the Vatican and the ire of a Roman Catholic MP yesterday by wearing all-white to meet the Pope, a privilege normally reserved for Catholic Queens.The Vatican convention is that females meeting the Pontiff should wear black, preferably with a black veil, or mantilla.   Cherie Blair with Pope Benedict When the Queen met Pope John Paul II six years ago, she observed the code meticulously.Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, wore black, but omitted the veil.By contrast, Mrs Blair, a staunch Catholic, chose to exercise the "privilege du blanc", usually granted only to the wives...

Cherie Blair says parenthood influenced her return to Catholic faith LONDON (CNS) -- The wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair said being a parent helped her return to her Catholic faith. In her most candid public reflection on her religious beliefs, Cherie Blair described herself as a feminist with an "enduring soft spot for the Virgin Mary." "She, for me, is an important part of Catholicism, because I passionately believe there is no more important role in life than motherhood," Blair said in The Independent newspaper June 5. "I admire her self-sacrifice, her ability to accept God's will and...

Cherie Blair opened her controversial Australasian speaking tour last night with a spectacular gaffe, forgetting which country she was in. The Prime Minister's wife, despite charging a reported £125,000 for her six-date tour of the two countries, then made the same mistake again. Despite the presence of several local journalists, the organiser of the event, the Sydney-based PR guru Max Markson, personally stepped in to escort all British press from the building. "There are no media allowed in," he said. "There's nothing I can do. I am following instructions." she struggled to live up to her superstar billing, according to...

Cherie Blair has renewed her attack on America's use of the death penalty. In a book review in the Catholic journal The Tablet, under her maiden name Cherie Booth, she says: "Capital cases are uniquely prone to error and thus call into question whether we can ever be really sure of obtaining the just result. "The reality is that too many people - innocent people - are executed for the system to be able to claim a just precision." The newspaper asked Mrs Blair, a Catholic, to review Ultimate Punishment, a book by Scott Turow, the American lawyer and novelist....

January 24, 2004 2001: the visit when Cherie Blair put her views on execution Cherie said Bush 'stole' power and tackled him on executions By Nicholas Wapshott in New York, Philip Webster and David Charter TONY BLAIR has been embarrassed by his wife’s displays of open animosity towards President Bush, according to a forthcoming biography of the Prime Minister. Cherie Blair is said to have made no secret of her conviction that Mr Bush “stole” the presidential election, and picked an argument with him over the death penalty during a private dinner. Although the Prime Minister was pragmatic about...

The President had a busy day in London today, with a visit with Laura to Westminster Abbey, and a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, a meeting at 10 Downing Street with Tony and Cherie Blair, a joint press conference with the two strongest leaders in the world, and a visit to a London school for a Shakespearian production by the children for the First Ladies, and a tour of the Faberge items at the Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace. There are more than a hundred photos out there today, and even with culling a bit,...

PRESIDENT George W Bush had his feet up at Buckingham Palace last night at the start of his historic state visit to Britain. The Texan, who likes to wear cowboy boots, jetted into Heathrow to be met by Prince Charles. And after a warm ‘Howdy’ he was whisked by helicopter to the Palace. Air Force One landed at 7.25pm at an airport that had been turned into a fortress. As the blue, white and silver Boeing 747 taxied to the airport’s VIP suite, dozens of uniformed police, many armed with machine guns, patrolled the area. They were accompanied by scores...

'Clap - Or She'll Get Stroppy'Cherie Blair left a group of Chinese university students bemused when she grabbed the microphone and belted out a very original version of The Beatles' classic When I'm Sixty-Four.

LONDON: The wife of Prime Minister Tony Blair is the person Britons most want kicked out of the country after her links to a convicted conman were exposed in the recent Cheriegate affair, according to a poll on Wednesday. In a tongue-in-cheek BBC survey drawing 15,000 votes, Cherie Blair topped the hall of shame with 31 per cent after damaging revelations last month about her property dealings with a convicted fraudster dominated headlines and embarrassed the government. Cherie Blair, a high profile barrister, saw her public support tumble in December as the media focused relentlessly on details of how Peter...

I DON'T care about Cherie Blair's rubbish friends and her attempts to mislead. She wasn't elected, she's not publicly accountable, and if Downing Street press officers are stupid enough to mislead on her behalf then our fight should be with them and not her. Curiously, what I do care about is being forced by the media to judge the connecting parts of this woman's life, and I care because she is currently being held up as an example of 'perfect' working motherhood found flawed and wanting only by being too 'protective' of her family...(snip) For Complete Article, Please Click Here.

LONDON - Cherie, Princess of Blair, sobbed her heart out on telly last night. (Where else should one sob one's heart out? What, after all, would be the point of doing so in private? That is what God gave us tears for: to shed in front of the cameras.) She confessed to the nation and the world -- truly, genuinely, sincerely -- that she was not perfect. Every sucker in the land was deeply moved. The problem is that Princess Cherie has been making a few rather foolish decisions lately. Like her late sister-in-suffering, Princess Diana, she has been consorting...

For years, most people have tried to ignore the worrying fact that Anthony Blair has an extremist wife. That is why so many observers still do not understand this Government, or realise how dangerous and damaging it is. Cherie Booth, who is the Prime Minister's closest adviser, is political correctness made flesh. I believe she and her socialworker views are hugely influential in many areas of Government policy. It was not an accident when last November she talked about 'We in the British Government'. As a former Left-wing extremist myself, I know the code. I am sure that she dwells...

The only exceptional thing about Cherie Blair's observations on the motives of Palestinian suicide bombers is that anyone should have considered them exceptional. The notion that the pursuit of martyrdom is the consequence of hatred born of despair is one that the vast majority of British people would accept. In its original phase, it was easy to dismiss suicide bombing as the handiwork of a few Islamist fanatics. But the atrocities are now so frequent, and the pool of volunteers so deep, that it has lost all analytical value, save for those who wish to stifle debate. Only a collective...

Monday, British PM’s Wife Cherie Blair Spoke Sympathetically of Young Palestinian Suicide Bombers She Appeared with Jordanian Queen Rania at Medical Aid for Palestine Fund Raiser