Tony Blair Daily Routine

6.30am: gets up.

7am: on telephone to staff discussing day ahead.

8am: Breakfast with children. Flicks through newspapers but does not read them extensively.

9am: chairs daily strategy meeting with aides such as David Hill, head of communications, and Jonathan Powell, chief of staff.

9.30am: rest of morning taken up with meetings and phone calls. Yesterday, he met cabinet secretary, Sir Andrew Turnbull, and spoke to Irish prime minister, Bertie Ahern. John Scarlett, chairman of the joint intelligence committee, also visited, followed by deputy prime minister, John Prescott, former health minister Alan Milburn, and foreign secretary, Jack Straw, who arrived half an hour before he deputised for Mr Blair in the chamber to brief MPs on outcome of EU summit.

1pm: A quick sandwich, often taken as he catches the news headlines. Meetings resume, with Mr Blair using any gaps to sift through documents prepared by his private office.

6.30pm: By this stage, he hopes to return to his flat to see his children, as well as finding time to go to the gym. Later, he reads official papers before retiring to bed at 11pm.

The former prime minister and Labour leader, 67, claims it was 'impossible' to return to ordinary life after leaving office. Pictured with wife Cherie outside 10 Downing Street in May 1997, following his nomination as Prime Minister and the Labour party's landslide general election victory over the Conservatives

The above is taken from a 2003 article by The Guardian.

According to a 2020 DailyMail article:

Tony Blair has revealed he hasn’t done housework, laundry or cooked a family meal since 1997. 

The former prime minister and Labour leader, 67, claims it was ‘impossible’ to return to ordinary life after leaving office. 

He told The Sunday Times Magazine he hasn’t done a weekly grocery shop or even driven a car since the month he entered Number 10. 

‘My life’s not been normal since moving into Downing Street,’ he explained, adding that it was difficult to resume normality after office ‘because then you have the whole security apparatus around you and it just changes’.

Tony Blair, pictured in February, has revealed he hasn't done housework, laundry or cooked a family meal since 1997

The family have had no staff working at their seven-bedroom rural Buckinghamshire stately home – which Blair hasn’t left in 11 weeks – since March.  

Though the ex-PM’s cooking skills have stretched to an omlette, which he made for himself and his son Leo, 20.

Cherie claimed that when she first met her husband, the first thing she would do when she went to visit him was ‘strip the bed, make the bed, and generally try and tidy up the place’. 

Source:

  • https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8467659/Tony-Blair-admits-housework-washed-clothes-1997.html
  • https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/oct/21/uk.labour1