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TONY BLAIR Earnest PM survives foot-and-mouth, Conservative challenge. Now about that euro...
...Tories' front bench has not been particularly impressive since the drubbing of 1997. Former Chancellor Ken Clarke, now a backbencher and probably the country's most popular Tory, would be the obvious choice. Yet he remains a committed pro-European in a party that is deeply Euro-skeptic. Shadow home secretary Ann Widdecombe may galvanize the grass roots, but she is on the right of a party already criticized for moving too far in that direction. Other possible contenders, such as shadow defence secretary Iain Duncan Smith, a former soldier, are relatively unknown to voters at large...
...That, of course, is the big question: What must the Tories do next? Hague has been criticized for a campaign directed at "bogus" asylum seekers, tougher measures for crime, staying out of the euro and lowering taxes. This presented an image, former Tory Deputy Prime Minister Michael Heseltine told the bbc, of "a right-wing, xenophobic party talking to itself in a very introspective way." A new vision is clearly needed, but the difficulty for the Conservatives is that Labour now has successfully pre-empted the center ground...
...What do you think are the most important issues in the UK election? Health Care Education Crime The Euro Other...
...What do you think are the most important issues in the UK election? Health Care Education Crime The Euro Other...