We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

From the start of the War on Terror in 2001 Blair strongly supported the foreign policy of US President George W. In the first years of the New Labour government Blair's government implemented a number of 1997 manifesto pledges introducing the minimum wage Human Rights Act and Freedom of Information Act and carrying out devolution establishing the Scottish Parliament the National Assembly for Wales and the Northern Ireland Assembly.