Stefan Rousseau's favourite political photos - in pictures

July 2003: Tony Blair meets with the mayor of Shanghai, Han Zheng, during a visit to the far east Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

March 2004: Prime Minister Tony Blair meets with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in Tripoli Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

April 2007: Tony Blair and his advisors have tea on board a flight to Berlin Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

May 2007: Tony Blair makes a phone call to his son Leo before boarding a plane bound for Iraq Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

June 2007: Tony Blair at his desk in his office, known as his den, at 10 Downing Street Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

March 2008: Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman visit Mo Knowles, a Stevenage resident who has helped reduce youth crime in the area. The Prime Minister was in Hertfordshire to launch Labour's local election campaign Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

April 2008: Gordon Brown waits to address the United Nations Security Council at the UN headquarters in New York Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

February 2010: Conservative Party leader David Cameron takes a run along the sea front in Brighton before addressing the Conservative Party spring conference Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

May 2010: Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha meet Cabinet Secretary Gus O'Donnel in the Cabinet Room of Downing Street Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

July 2010: Prime Minister David Cameron meets with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office of the White House Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

April 2012: David Cameron meets Aung San Suu Kyi at her Lakeside Villa in Rangoon, Burma. This was the first time a British Prime Minister had visited the country since it gained independance in 1948 Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

July 2012: The Queen poses for a photograph with Prime Minister David Cameron and former Prime Ministers John Major, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown at 10 Downing Street where they later had lunch to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA