Cherie Blair
Cherie Blair QC (born September 23, 1954), best known as the wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, is a successful lawyer. She uses her maiden name Cherie Booth in a professional capacity.Her father, the actor Tony Booth, walked out when she was two. He would later gain fame for his role in the BBC comedy Til Death Us Do Part,
She studied at the London School of Economics for a law degree. She was the first (and still the only) person to earn an LSE law degree with a first class in all her subjects. She later came at the top of her year in the bar exams. In 1976, while she was studying to become a lawyer, she met Tony Blair. She won a pupillage in the chambers of Derry Irvine ahead of him, although he was taken on part-time. They married in 1980.
Cherie Blair unsuccessfully contested the seat of North Thanet in Kent at the 1983 general election, while her husband was selected at the last minute for a safe seat in Sedgefield, County Durham in the same election.
She established her own chambers, called Matrix Law, in the late 1990s to specialise in cases brought under the European Convention of Human Rights. In 2002, she hit the newspaper headlines because of her involvement with Peter Foster, a convicted Australian conman who assisted her with the purchase of two flats in Bristol. The newspapers referred to the scandal as 'Cheriegate'.
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