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...What do you think are the most important issues in the UK election? Health Care Education Crime The Euro Other...
...billion. According to an ICM poll, voters prefer Labour's tax policies to the Conservatives' by 31% to 18%. On the issues they rate most important - health, crime, education, the economy - voters decisively back Labour. And while they slightly prefer Hague's determination to keep out of the euro, which he has been stressing, over Blair's "wait and see" approach (27% to 26%), this issue ranks a mere 11th in importance. Funeral pyres of diseased livestock may be spewing smoke over the countryside, some of Blair's ministers may have resigned in disgrace, the Millennium Dome...
...What do you think are the most important issues in the UK election? Health Care Education Crime The Euro Other...
...then there is Europe. Tony Blair recently argued the "patriotic case" for engaging with the E.U., but two-thirds of voters want to stay out of the euro, and half would even leave the E.U., mostly because they feel it threatens British identity...
...conservative bloc with Aznar, who shares his resistance to rapid enlargement of membership; he is already demanding a bigger Italian say on European farm policy. Berlusconi's promises to cut taxes, raise pensions and fund big public works projects seem at odds with the fiscal rigor required of euro-zone countries. Despite the potential for friction, the watchword within the E.U. is wait and see. "The trouble is we just don't know what Berlusconi thinks of Europe," says a French diplomat. "Europe has been a non-debate in Italy for the past 20 years...