Tony Blair Quotes
There has to be certainty and there has to be clarity. There can't be ambiguity, .. This has to be certain, clear in all respects from all the parties so nobody is in any doubt about what the future holds.
Blair, Tony. Press Conference on Northern Ireland. 10 Downing Street, 2005, London. Speech.
His perspective is that it takes major compromise on both parties to make peace. As long as one or both of the parties have hope that they do not have to compromise, they will not and peace is not achieved. At the same time, if either part is certain that they are right or will win in the end, they will not likely compromise—hence Hopkin’s statement.
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. On his resignation he was appointed Special Envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East, a diplomatic post which he held until 2015. He currently serves as the executive chairman of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, established in 2016. As prime minister, many of his policies reflected a centrist "Third Way" political philosophy. He is the only living former Labour leader to have led the party to a general election victory and the only one in history to form three majority governments.
