And what would you suggest his title be?
2007-03-24 11:17:30 · 9 answers · asked by rann_georgia 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
If convention is a guide, he'll be offered a peerage and the Order of the Garter. However the KG is wholly in the gift of the Queen, and I would hope that as he has dragged Britain's international reputation through the mud, she would think better of it. I think he would decline a peerage; as someone who wants to seem modern and has scoffed at old British traditions (denigrating the ancient office of Lord Chancellor, for example) he would look like a bigger hypocrite than Neil Kinnock and Roy Hattersley when they took peerages.
As for titles, life peers are notoriously unimaginative nowadays so he'd probably just be Lord Blair, though in the old days Lord Sedgefield would have been a likely choice.
2007-03-24 13:05:05 · answer #1 · answered by Dunrobin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's possible, but I don't think he would take it. He once said that the House of Lords is not his scene.
Former PM's are honoured in some fashion though. So the Queen would probably give him a knighthood in the future. Sir Tony Blair? It could happen!
2007-03-24 18:31:29 · answer #2 · answered by cprime17 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
His government might have abolished appointed Peers by then, so it would be academic.
Moorglade - only one recent PM has expected a peerage, and she even went as far a breaking a constitutional convention so she would get the sort she wanted.
2007-03-24 18:41:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lord Liar Of Basra
2007-03-24 21:05:00 · answer #4 · answered by K. Marx iii 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take it..?
Tony Blair is the type of man to expect one.
2007-03-24 18:21:13 · answer #5 · answered by Moorglademover 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes.
Lord Bliar lord of liars.
2007-03-25 00:34:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only is someone else paid for it. Arise Lord Chump.
2007-03-25 04:59:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He'd take it as long as he didn't have to pay for it! He's a big cheapskate with his own money.
So Baron Cheapskate would suit him, sir.
2007-03-25 09:39:29 · answer #8 · answered by LongJohns 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course he`ll take it, he`s not a proper socialist or republican - he`s more Tory than Cameron.
2007-03-24 20:32:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋