The 2008 TIME 100 Finalists
Read about the leaders, artists, enterpreneurs and thinkers who, in your opinion, deserve a spot on this year's TIME 100 —Scott Brown and Michelle Kung
AGE: 54
OCCUPATION: British politician and former U.K. Prime Minister
NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0
PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0
PRO: The U.K.'s youngest PM in over a century, the "New" Labour leader boosted the country's health and education systems and quelled the violence in Northern Ireland before resigning in 2007. The '09 visiting Yale lecturer is now a potential candidate for President of Europe.
CON: In Britain, "Bush" and "Blair" are synonyms. His stalwart support of the Iraq War continues to cloud his legacy — much of it bound up in his symbolic and utterly intellectual position as "Quartet" ambassador to Israel and Palestine — and his country's opinion of him.
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