Tony Blair: Who is the UK ex-PM in Trump's Gaza peace plan

The former British prime minister has been named by Trump as the co-head of the so-called Board of Peace to oversee Gaza's reconstruction.

LONDON — Tony Blair.

A political titan who remains Britain’s most successful postwar leader, or a disgraced scourge of the Middle East who should never be allowed near the region again.

Depending on who you speak with, the man now set for a central role in President Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza could conjure either reaction.

The proposal will see Blair, 72, join Trump as co-chair of a “Board of Peace” — an international body that would oversee the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip after its devastation at the hands of the Israeli military.

Blair won three consecutive elections between 1997 and 2005, standing down two years later having never been defeated at the ballot box.