Prime Minister Brown leads the Labor party, which used to be headed by Tony Blair and has held power for 13 years.

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair,who oversaw the Good Friday negotiations, says Kennedy was a "true public servant committed to the values of fairness and opportunity."

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

"It has become increasingly clear that Tony Blair misled parliament on more than one occasion and I think that MPs were invited to make their own judgment on the merits of the case for war and they were entitled to do so on the truth and it looks very much as though that the truth was withheld from parliament and many MPs may well have made a different decision if they had had the full unvarnished truth,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.13