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...week before the british general election, the news inside Labour Party headquarters on Victoria Street in London was disturbing. A perfectly timed leak of the Attorney General's March 2003 legal advice to Tony Blair about the Iraq war was starting to hurt Blair in the polls. The memo proved he had not defied the legal advice or lied about it, but it did suggest he had not fully leveled with Parliament or the public about the perils of invading Iraq. Labour voters were suddenly draining away to the antiwar Liberal Democrats - twice as many as were switching the other...
...workers were hustled into key marginal seats, and Blair gave a speech condemning the Lib Dems' policies on crime and drugs. Still the Lib Dems kept surging: by Sunday, the number crunchers at Victoria Street calculated their share of the vote could reach 25% by election day. Finally the Labour counterattack gained traction, and the tide subsided. The day before the election, Mark Penn, a U.S. pollster working for Labour, was able to write on a big whiteboard at headquarters "37 32 22" - his predicted share of Thursday's vote for Labour, Tories and Lib Dems. Close enough: the actual...
...Tony Blair was fair to call this result historic. It's the first time his Labour Party has won a third consecutive term in office. Yet his subdued recognition that he had "listened and learned" from voters acknowledged their tepid endorsement. Labour's share of the vote was the smallest of any government ever, and its new parliamentary majority of 66 M.P.s is a vertiginous plunge from the 167 majority it secured in 2001. Within hours of the polls closing, Britain's newspapers were discussing, in their usual feverish way, how long Blair would remain as Prime Minister...
...election proved disappointing for those who were looking for a neck-and-neck race. Exit polls released throughout the evening showed current Labour Party Prime Minister Tony Blair comfortably poised for a historic third term...
...Blair’s Labour Party was expected to lose 66 seats in Parliament, something analysts attributed to the weakening support for the Iraq War, which the Labour Party endorsed...