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    Sir Tony embraces the old

    Jun 30, 2022 5 minutes

    ON MONDAY, 13 JUNE 13 2022the Rt Hon Anthony Charles Lynton Blair PC was installed as (on one reckoning) the 10,017th Knight of the Garter. The Garter, founded in 1348, is the oldest Order of chivalry in the world. Windsor Castle, where the Order is based and where Blair’s investiture took place, is the oldest and largest inhabited castle in the world. And the Sovereign of the Order, Queen Elizabeth II, who conferred the honour, is the world’s oldest and longest reigning monarch and the current incumbent of the world’s second oldest monarchy.

    Quite where all this oldness leaves the “vision of a new Britain: a nation reborn, prosperous, secure, united”, which Sir Tony (as I suppose we must now call him) aimed to fashion as Her Majesty’s eleventh Prime Minister, is anyone’s

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