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The end in sight for Blair?
The story requires registration, but the Telegraph is worth it.The outcry over the allied torture photos in Iraq, the U-turn over the European referendum, and a Tory surge in the polls have provoked renewed speculation that political and personal pressure could prompt him (Blair) to stand down this summer. Robin Cook and Glenys Kinnock acknowledged that Mr Blair may have to go, as a poll showed Labour would lose power if he stayed in office - but would survive with a majority of 77 if Gordon Brown, the Chancellor, replaced him. The wife of the former Labour leader, who himself recently raised the prospect of Mr Blair "hanging up his boots", drew attention to the pressures the Blair family has faced in nearly a decade at the top of the party and seven as Prime Minister. "Sometimes he looks really drained and exhausted and I think particularly about the pressures on a family," she told GMTV. A YouGov poll in the Mail on Sunday suggested that if Mr Blair remained as Labour leader he would get 36 per cent of the vote at the next election, compared with 40 per cent for the Tories, leaving him without an overall majority in the Commons. Bulldog, is this for real? Posted by: RWV 2004-05-09 |
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