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Book by Tony Blair

For the album by Maciek Pysz, see A Journey (album). For the 2024 Philippine film, see A Journey (film).

A Journey is a memoir by Tony Blair of his tenure as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Published in the UK on 1 September 2010, it covers events from when he became leader of the Labour Party in 1994 and transformed it into "New Labour", holding power for a party record three successive terms, to his resignation and replacement as prime minister by his Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown.

Blair donated his £4.6-million advance, and all subsequent royalties, to the British Armed Forces charity the Royal British Legion.

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It became the fastest-selling autobiography of all time at the bookstore chain Waterstones. Promotional events were marked by anti-war protests.

Two of the book's major topics are the strains in Blair's relationship with Brown after Blair allegedly reneged on the pair's 1994 agreement to step down as prime minister m