Cherie Blair

Cherie Blair, CBE ( born September 23, 1954 in Bury, near Manchester ) is the wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. In her profession as a lawyer she still uses her maiden name, Cherie Booth.

Cherie Blair grew up in Liverpool. Her father, the actor Tony Booth, left the family when Cherie was two years old. In the 1960s, he gained great popularity with his role in the BBC sitcom Till Death Us Do Part ( English presentation to A heart and a soul).

Booth studied law at the London School of Economics and Political Science and is still the only graduate of the college which reached the highest score in all four test subjects. 1976 met Booth Tony Blair, as she had applied for an internship at the Labour politician Derry Irvine. Although Booth was awarded the advertised internship, but also Blair has been adopted as part time. Booth and Blair were married on March 29, 1980 The marriage produced four children: . Euan Anthony, Nicholas John, Kathryn Hazel and Leo George. Leo Blair is the first -born child during the tenure of Prime Minister for 150 years. After the birth of her fourth child Booth had two miscarriages in 2001 and 2003. Cherie Blair is a practicing Catholic, the four children of the Blairs are baptized Catholic.

In the parliamentary elections in 1983 Booth and Blair competed for Labour. While Booth failed in their constituency North Thanet in Kent, Blair in Sedgefield, County Durham was elected to the House of Commons.

In the late 1990s, Booth built up his own firm (Matrix Law ), which specializes in the European Convention on Human Rights.

From 1999 to 2006 she was Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University.

2002 Booth came under criticism when it was revealed that she had acquired with the support of the Australian Peter Foster two flats in Bristol illegal. The affair was referred to in the British media as " Cheri Gate".

On 24-25. May 2007 joined Cherie Blair at the 4th International Forum on Human Rights IHRF in Luzern / Switzerland on. She spoke out in favor of the war in Iraq.

Honors

  • 2003: Honorary doctorate from the University of Liverpool
  • 2003: honorary doctorate from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
  • Honorary doctorate from the University of Westminster
  • 2008: Honorary Doctorate of Roehampton University
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
  • Freeman of the City of London
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