8.Prime Minister Tony Blair was among the 160 guests along with his wife Cherie, ForeignSecretary Jack Straw and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams.
9.In the same year, the British government announced the Balfour Declaration, named for the British foreignsecretary Arthur Balfour, which promised Zionists a national homeland in Palestine.
10.In the meantime, the Whig Government in England had fallen and, in 1841, the new Tory ForeignSecretary, Lord Aberdeen, issued revised instructions to Pottinger, dropping the demand for an island.