Summary
TONY and Cherie Blair today celebrate the milestone many thought they might never make: a decade in 10 Downing Street. Few other British couples have had their marriage subjected to such public scrutiny and emerged after ten years with their relationship unscathed.
The Blairs' partnership has evolved to cope with the pressures of living in what Mrs Blair calls the "goldfish bowl" of Downing Street. It has held firm through the birth of their fourth child, Leo, in 2000, when Mrs Blair was 45; the public humiliation of son Euan after teenage experimentation with alcohol; a string of gaffes; and a long-running guerrilla war with their next-door neighbour, Gordon Brown.See the full content of this document
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The Blairs at No 10
But some things between the Blairs have remained constant, most obviously their embraces and the hand-holding at formal occasions that made them so different from previous occupants of No 10.
Yet, as they raise a glass today to toast their highlights...See the full content of this document
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