On June 24, 2006, the Labour Party held a special meeting in Manchester, and the current Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown was appointed as the new leader.
This also means that he will officially take over the position of Prime Minister from Blair in three days.
On June 27, Prime Minister Blair formally submitted his resignation to Queen Elizabeth II after going to Parliament for the last time to answer questions from MPs, thus ending his nine-year career as prime minister.
It can be said that Blair is destined to become a figure that cannot be ignored in British history.
He became leader of the Labour Party in 1994, led the party to victory in the 1997 general election with an overwhelming majority of votes, and was re-elected in the following two general elections, becoming the first Labour Prime Minister in British history to be elected three times.
During his tenure as Prime Minister, Britain's economy developed and society underwent comprehensive reforms.
Its policy is to implement great power diplomacy externally and advocate a diversified society internally.
Blair has won wide praise for promoting the peace process in Northern Ireland, responding to the July 7 bombings in London, and winning the right to host the Olympic Games in London.
However, Blair and his government have also been under pressure and criticism for supporting the Iraq War and sending troops to fight.
In addition, the Labour Party was also suspected of offering peerages to donors, and Blair became the first prime minister to be questioned by the police as a witness twice during his term.
Due to many factors, Blair was finally forced to resign as leader of the Labour Party on the 15th of last month under internal and external pressure.
On the same day, June 27, after Blair submitted his resignation to the Queen, Brown and his wife arrived at 10 Downing Street in London.
That afternoon, Brown went to Buckingham Palace at the invitation of Queen Elizabeth II, accepted the Queen's authorization to form a new cabinet, and received the royal seal from the Queen, officially taking office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
He later said in a speech at Downing Street:
"I will do my utmost to listen to the voice of the British public, reform the housing, education and health service systems, work hard to serve the British people, give full play to the potential of the British public, and make Britain a global success model in the 21st century."
Brown is preparing to carry out the largest cabinet reshuffle in nine years after taking office to prepare the Labour Party to "deal with the threat from the Conservatives" in the next general election.
Analysts believe that this means that some of Blair's key figures will leave the government as Blair leaves office, marking the end of the Blair era organizationally, and Brown will then be able to lead the Labour Party on a new journey.
In order to win the support of all parties, Brown promised that when forming a new government, he would be non-partisan and would absorb talented people with experience and expertise to make the Labour government more adaptable to the requirements of the times.
Barron and Bonnie also left London and went to Germany to continue watching the subsequent World Cup games after attending Brown's inauguration ceremony.
June 30th, at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, today is the first match of the quarter-finals, Germany vs. Argentina.
The German team performed very well in the group stage, winning all three games.
Argentina's lineup is also very strong, so today's game is still quite suspenseful - except for Barron, of course.
Of course, he couldn't say he was 100% sure now, because with his appearance, the direction of some things had changed. Even the main thread of the world's operation still maintained its inertia, but in some places he could influence, some changes had occurred.
Take the Colo Chinese national football team for example. Thanks to the changes made by Barron, their performance in this World Cup is still remarkable.
Although they still failed to qualify from the group stage, they defeated South Korea and scored a goal in the match against Switzerland.
In addition, because he acquired Manchester United, it also had an impact on the resumes of some players, but at the World Cup level, the impact was not too great.
Up to now, the results of this World Cup that Barron has seen are still generally the same as in his previous life. The biggest difference is the Group G where the Kolo team is located.
Of course, in fact, it is impossible for Barron to remember all the results of the World Cup in his previous life. The Asahi World Cup in his previous life was held at home, the game time was more friendly to Chinese fans, and there was also a Chinese team participating. Therefore, Barron paid special attention to that World Cup at that time.
During this World Cup, he did not have much free time, and because of the time difference, he did not watch many games.
This time, Barron and Bonnie came to Abu's VIP box to watch the game at his invitation.
When Barron watched the World Cup match before, he chose a mostly enclosed box because Fan Bingbing was with him.
The box where Abramovich was now was mostly open-style, so the two couples, Barron and Abramovich, sitting together, attracted the attention of the photographer, who had already cut the camera to them on the big screen in the stadium before the game.
All the fans in the stadium were able to see through the big screen the young and handsome British Duke and his beautiful Duchess chatting and laughing with Abramovich and his wife.
I'm afraid that the photos of their two families watching the game together will unsurprisingly appear in many newspapers and media.
After all, Barron and Abramovich, one is the owner of the Premier League giant Manchester United Club, and the other is the owner of the Premier League's new powerhouse Chelsea. Judging from their good relationship in private, they should be a hot topic.
Barron and Abramovich chatted about a wide range of topics, including some interesting things about this World Cup and Barron's newly ordered yacht. Abramovich exchanged some experiences with him about this, and even touched on the news of Blair's resignation and the new prime minister taking office.
On the other hand, Bonnie and Abramovich's wife Zhukova mainly talked about fashion topics at first. After the game started, because Bonnie used to be a sports host at Sky TV, she was more familiar with the rules of football. Zhukova grew up in the United States and came to watch the World Cup with Abramovich, so Bonnie would help Zhukova explain some rules from time to time.
In the first half of the game, Germany had few chances, while Argentina was more at ease, possessing the ball for 60% of the time.
After the first half ended in a goalless draw, Argentina got a chance shortly after the start of the second half.
Maxi broke through on the right and won a corner kick, Riquelme took the kick, Crespo cut in from the middle to the front post to distract the opponent's defense, Ayala overpowered Kroos and headed the ball into the right side of the goal from 8 meters in front of the goal, and Argentina broke the deadlock 1-0.
This is also the first time that the German team fell behind in this World Cup.
Germany then began to speed up the tempo of the game, constantly using their strong bodies to attack Argentina's defense, and repeatedly tried to use their signature weapon - high-altitude bombing - to try to save the situation.
"It looks like the Argentines just want to hold on to their advantage..."
Abramovich said to Barron:
"But the Germans are not very lucky."
"But if things continue like this, Argentina will be in danger. All the Germans need is a little luck..."
After 75 minutes of the game, although the German team created some threats, none of them were converted into goals.
Argentina began to strengthen its defense by making substitutions, obviously wanting to maintain the score of 1:0 until the end of the game.
But the reality was not what they expected...
In the 80th minute, Ballack threw the ball in from the left sideline, then received a pass from Lahm and made a cross with his right foot. Borowski headed the ball to the back post, and Klose got in front of Sorin and headed the ball into the lower left corner from 7 meters in front of the goal. Germany tied the score 1-1!
This was Klose's first header in this World Cup and his 10th goal in the tournament.