Portraits, 3rd prize
Tom Stoddart
Independent Photographers Group
Independent Photographers Group
01 January, 1997
Tony Blair on the campaign trail: Tony Blair keeps in touch with his headquarters by mobile phone. The general election, appropriately held on Europe's Labour Day, brought a landslide victory for Tony Blair's New Labour. With 45 percent of the vote the party scored its largest victory since 1945. Introducing a style of government he promised would be modern and dynamic, Blair waived traditional protocol and insisted that first names be used in his new cabinet.
Tom Stoddart
In 1978 he moved to London and began working freelance for publications such as the Sunday Times and Time Magazine. During a long and varied career he has witnessed such interna...
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