So the time has finally come - the time for Tony Blair to step down as Prime Minister and to let Gordon Brown have a turn.

Looking back over the last ten years, there have been some good and bad points to his three terms in office. Starting with the good parts of Blair's legacy...

In 1997 Blair finally got Labour elected after more than 18 years. This was a big achievement and Blair will certainly remembered well for this. Old Labour was never going to get elected again and he took the centre ground.

When he came to power the country was in a poor state economically. Interest rates were high, people were having their homes repossessed and inflation and unemployment were going up. New Labour managed to get all this under control and bring unemployment at four per cent, inflation at three per cent.

In 1999 Labour brought in the minimum wage, which has meant that a lot of young people get paid more than the then standard £1.50 an hour. This has improved living standards.

But history will possibly best remember Tony Blair for settling the Northern Ireland conflict. Britain hasn't been attacked by the IRA since 1996. There was the Good Friday agreement in 1998 and the IRA gave up its weapons. Last month we saw Blair, DUP leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Fein having a cup of tea and laughing together. This is certainly progress.

Of course, there will be things that history will not like about Tony Blair.

Perhaps the thing that for which he will be most remembered is the Iraq war.

Despite two million marching against it, Blair still took us to war. He lied to us about a war which has seen many troops and civilians killed. He is meant to be a trained lawyer and yet he failed to show those skills when Bush managed to convince him into going to war. Four years later the troops are still over there.

The there's the sleaze issue. Even though we don't see it like last time, there have been many scandals which will haunt Blair. Early in his government Bernie Ecclestone admitted having given large amounts of money to the New Labour project. Then in 2003 Cherie Blair came under fire for being helped find a flat by the Australian conman Peter Foster.

Since the Iraq war there has been the money-for-honours scandal. Blair didn't agree with peerages when the Tories did it and yet he was giving honours to those who did him a good turn.

It is probably safe to say that Labour in office is not very democratic. People with views which differ with Blair and Blairites, such as Clare Short, are cast out. Robin Cook resigned because he felt uncomfortable with Blair and how right-wing he had become.

Finally, another bad thing about Blair these last ten years was the foot-and-mouth crisis.

As Bradford is so close to the Dales, this was a very important issue for the city.

In 2001 when a farm had the disease, it spread and got out of control, yet this Government didn't seem to care about the amount of animals, such as cows and sheep, which were burning on the pyres. Over a million, possibly more, were put to death and hundreds of farmers went bust - some not far from Bradford.