Chapter 474 The new prime minister takes office

On June 24, 2006, the Labor Party held a special conference in Manchester, and current Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown was appointed as the new leader.

This also means that he will officially succeed Blair as prime minister 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 members, thus announcing the end of 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 served as leader of the Labor Party in 1994, led the Labor Party to victory in the general election with an overwhelming majority of votes in 1997, and won re-election in the subsequent two general elections, becoming the first Labor Prime Minister to be elected three times in British history.

During his tenure as Prime Minister, the British economy developed and society underwent comprehensive reforms.

Its policy is to implement great-power diplomacy externally and advocate a pluralistic society internally.

Blair has won widespread praise for promoting the peace process in Northern Ireland, responding to the "7.7" serial bombings in London, and winning the right to host the Olympic Games in London.

However, because of supporting the Iraq war and sending troops to fight, Blair and the government he led have also been under pressure and criticism.

In addition, the Labor Party was also suspected of providing noble houses to donors, making Blair the first prime minister to be interviewed by the police twice as a witness during his term.

Due to many factors, Blair finally had to resign as leader of the Labor 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.

In the afternoon of the same day, 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 the British Prime Minister.

He later spoke at the Prime Minister's Office and said:

"I will do my best to listen to the voices 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 Labor Party to "respond to the threat from the Conservative Party" in the next general election.

Analysts believe that this means that some of Blair's cadres will quit the government with Blair's departure, organizationally announcing the end of the Blair era, and Brown will then be free to lead the Labor Party to start a new journey.

In order to win the support of all political parties, Brown promised to form a new government regardless of party affiliation, absorbing talents with experience and expertise, so as to make the Labor government more adaptable to the needs of the times.

Barron and Bonnie also left London after attending Brown's inauguration ceremony and went to Germany to continue watching the following World Cup games.

June 30, Berlin's Olympiastadion, today is the first game of the quarter-finals, Germany versus 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 - of course, except for Barron.

Of course, he can't be said to be 100% sure now, because with his appearance, the direction of some things has changed. Even the main context of the world's operation still maintains inertia, but in some cases he can influence There have been some changes.

For example, the Colo National Football Team, because of 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 the South Korean team and scored a goal against the Swiss team.

In addition, because he acquired the Manchester United club, it also had an impact on the resumes of some players, but at the World Cup level, the impact was not too great.

So far, the results of this World Cup that Barron has seen are still roughly the same as those in the previous life. The biggest difference in the ending is that Team Colo is in Group G.

Of course, in fact, it is impossible for Barron to remember all the results of this World Cup in the previous life. The Asahi World Cup in the previous life was held at home, the game time was friendly to Chinese fans, and there was also a Chinese team participating, so that Barron paid special attention to the World Cup at the time.

During this World Cup, he didn't have much free time at the time, and because of the time difference, he didn't watch many games.

This time, Barron and Bonnie came to Abramovich's VIP box to watch the game at his invitation.

When Barron watched the World Cup game before, he chose a mostly closed box because he was surrounded by Fan Bingbing.

Most of the boxes where Abramovich arrived now were open, so the two couples Barron and Abramovich were sitting together, which also attracted the attention of photographers. Before the game, there was a picture on the big screen in the stadium. Cut to them.

All the fans in the audience could see the young and handsome British Duke and his beautiful Duchess talking and laughing happily with Abramovich and his wife through the big screen.

I am afraid that the photos of the two of them watching the game together will undoubtedly appear in many newspapers and media.

After all, Barron and Abramovich, one is the owner of the Premier League giant Manchester United, and the other is the owner of the new Premier League powerhouse Chelsea. Judging from their good relationship in private, they should be very topical.

Barron and Abramovich chatted about a wide range of topics, including some interesting things about this World Cup, as well as Barron's newly ordered yacht. Abramovich exchanged some experiences with him on this, and even the news of Blair's resignation and the new prime minister's appointment. People also talked about it.

On the other side, Bonnie and Abramovich's wife Zhukova, the two of them mainly talked about fashion at first. But after the game started, because Bonnie used to be a sports host on Sky TV in the beginning, she She is relatively familiar with the rules of football. Zhukova, who grew up in the United States, went 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, the German team had few chances, while the Argentina team was more comfortable. Their ball possession rate in the first half reached 60%.

After a goalless first half, Argentina had their chance shortly after the second half began.

Maxi broke through from the right and won a corner kick. Riquelme took the kick. Crespo inserted in the middle to drive away the opponent's defense. Ayala overwhelmed Klos and headed the ball 8 meters in front of the goal into the right side of the goal. Argentina. The deadlock was broken 1-0.

This is also the first time the German team has fallen behind in this World Cup.

Then the German team began to speed up the tempo of the game, constantly attacking the Argentinian team's defense with its strong body, and tried many times to use its magic weapon-high-altitude bombing to try to save the situation.

"It looks like the Argentinians just want to keep this goal advantage..."

Abu said to Barron:

"But the Germans are not very lucky."

"But if this continues, 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, they were not converted into goals.

Argentina began to strengthen its defense through substitutions, obviously wanting to maintain the 1:0 score until the end of the game.

But the reality is not what they expected...

In the 80th minute, Ballack threw a sideline ball from the left, and then received a pass from Ram with his right foot. Borowski shook his head and hit the back point. Klose rushed in front of Solin and scored 7 points in front of the goal. Meter rushed to the lower left corner and scored, Germany tied 1-1!

This is Klos' first header in this World Cup and his 10th goal in the World Cup.