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...public belief that their cause is just, even if their methods are sometimes unsavory. Blair never convinced a lot of people in Britain that the Iraq war was just - and those who resent him for it now form an archipelago of the disaffected. Inside the spy agencies, on the Labour backbenches and among potential juries trying government leakers, they can exercise power, too - a crude, perhaps self-absorbed, form of democracy, but effective...
Before the week is out, Tony Blair may discover whether he can remain Prime Minister--and if he can, whether the office is still worth holding. First there is the culmination of weeks of feverish campaigning to contain a Labour Party rebellion over his plan to increase university budgets by making students pay more. A defeat on this bill would mean a central plank of Blair's push to rejuvenate British education would stand rejected by his own M.P.s. Then there is the expected release of a long-awaited report on the suicide of David Kelly, the weapons scientist...
...could Blair's fortunes have fallen so far? The main problem is the failure to find illegal weapons in Iraq, which Blair stressed as the only legal justification for a war that his M.P.s found dubious. Another problem is the surprising force of Old Labour, the party members who stress social justice over technocratic reform and have grown impatient with Blair's affection for the private sector. They rebelled last year over injecting more private money and control into hospitals, and have drawn the line at Blair's plan to require tuition fees of up to $5,500 per year...
...barely human in his elusiveness." The escape artist, of course, was Prime Minister Tony Blair, who had managed to slip out of a political bind - make that two of them - that could have forced him from office. On Tuesday, Blair squeezed a scant five-vote victory - despite Labour's 161-vote majority in the House of Commons - to clear the path of a bill to charge students more to attend university. (He'd staked his premiership on the outcome, and a loss could have led to a vote of confidence against him.) The very next day, Blair and the rest...
...sped away unscathed from his near-death experience. He could see plenty of roadkill in the rearview mirror. The Conservatives' new leader, Michael Howard, had been widely praised for restoring some discipline and purpose to a party that hasn't managed to mount an effective opposition since Labour came to power in 1997. Trying to capitalize on polls showing rising distrust of Blair, Howard spent weeks suggesting the Prime Minister lied about his role in "outing" Kelly's name to journalists - only to find that Hutton's judgment wholly undercut him. He seemed so stunned that he couldn't revise...