England's Hillary.When a British Conservative Party leader compared Cherie Blair, wife of prime minister Tony Blair Noun 1. Tony Blair - British statesman who became prime minister in 1997 (born in 1953) Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, Blair , to Hillary Clinton, he meant it as an insult. But to many gays and lesbians in the United Kingdom and the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , it was the ultimate compliment. In recent months Cherie Blair has emerged--like Clinton--as an advocate for gay rights and women's rights The effort to secure equal rights for women and to remove gender discrimination from laws, institutions, and behavioral patterns. The women's rights movement began in the nineteenth century with the demand by some women reformers for the right to vote, known as suffrage, and . In a newspaper article written raider her maiden name maiden name n. A woman's family name before she is married. Used of a surname that is replaced by a woman when she marries. Also called birth name. , Cherie Booth, Blair endorsed the European Commission European Commission, branch of the governing body of the European Union (EU) invested with executive and some legislative powers. Located in Brussels, Belgium, it was founded in 1967 when the three treaty organizations comprising what was then the European Community on Human Rights, which will be incorporated into U.K. law in October. The commission has declared that same-sex relationships should have the same legal standing as opposite-sex ones. Like Clinton, Blair is under attack from the right wing for making her own liberal political views known. "Cherie Blair is breaking the long-standing convention that prime ministers' spouses do not push their own political agendas," charged Parliament member John Bercow in August. "It is unclear whether Cherie's end goal is to be lord chancellor or whether she is happy to direct policy from behind the throne." |
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