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British former prime minister Tony Blair said Sunday his leadership should be remembered for more than the Iraq war as he rejected fierce criticism over his receipt of a knighthood.

The Labour party’s most successful leader, who won three successive general elections, was made Sir Tony in Queen Elizabeth II’s New Year’s Honours list.

Blair said he had accepted not just for himself but for the “dedicated, committed people” who had worked with him in government and “provided a lot of change to the country”. “There are some people who want to say the only thing the government did was Iraq and ignore all the rest of the things we do,” Blair added.

The Queen personally appointed Blair as “Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter”, the most senior order of knighthood.Blair, now 68, defeated Major with a landslide Labour victory in 1997 and spent a decade in office.

 

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