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International | Tony Blur: A real '90s guy takes over at 10 Downing Street | Mindy Belz

Islington is the sort of shabby-turned-chic neighborhood--like San Francisco's Knob Hill or parts of Brooklyn--smart '90s couples gravitate to for a charming, almost pretentious, lack of pretense. Rows of white walk-ups have been renovated to accommodate the children of two-career professionals who've set up housekeeping along its shady streets. Play equipment vies with London's normally tidy gardens out back. Swiftly multiplying corner shops and ethnic restaurants attest to the upwardly mobile character the north London neighborhood is acquiring.

This was a fit setting for Great Britain's new prime minister to take up residence with his lawyer wife and three children after joining Parliament in 1983. It was also an appropriate place for Tony Blair, leader of the Labor Party since 1994, to meet with other members of the party leadership last fall-in a nouveau-minimalist restaurant called Granita-and purpose to change Labor's image.

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