He got more votes than the other candidates.
Labor Party leader and Leader of the Opposition
Yes. Tony Blair was the leader of the Labour Party and Prime Minister in 1998.
he was leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007
Gordon Brown
John Smith, who died in 1994 and was replaced by Tony Blair.
Tony Blair was elected leader of the Labour Party after the unexpected death of his predecessor, John Smith. At the General Election of 1997, the Labour Party was returned to power and Tony Blair, as their leader, became Prime Minister.
The party elects a new leader who is then the new prime minister. As happened when Blair resigned.
He was a crack haed
He was elected leader of the Labour Party in Parliament in 1994, after the death of the previous leader John Smith. At the time, Labour Party were the minority in the House of Commons. In the following election in 1997, the Labour Party won control of Parliament by a landslide, and Blair became Prime Minister, a position he held until 2007.
Gordon Brown became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 2007, after winning the leadership election in the Labour party (the current ruling party in the country). He has not yet fought a general election as Prime Minister and leader of the Labour party.
Kevin Rudd was elected leader of the ALP on 4 December 2006.
1997