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...long-term goals - that Britain should be at the heart of an attempt to make the European Union a dependable, strategic global partner for the U.S. Domestically, the threat comes not from the pitiful opposition Conservative Party but from the fact that many of his own Labour Party members are implacably opposed to a war without U.N. sanction - and even with it would support one only reluctantly. Historically, British Prime Ministers - think Margaret Thatcher - are just as likely to be tossed from office for splitting their parties as they are for losing elections. Blair has never been much loved...
...punishment. "Give them life - if they carry a gun they mean to kill," he said to applause. For the government, the strength of public feeling on the subject is an uncomfortable reminder of an old promise unkept. In the early '90s, Tony Blair famously vowed that in power, Labour would be "tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime." The delivery time for that promise is now running...
...free up the labor market - and Greek leader Costas Simitis, who risks seeing his country's hard-won fiscal stability damaged by demands from public sector workers. Here's a look at four leaders standing nose-to-nose with the unions. UNITED KINGDOM It's an awkward straddle: a Labour government - traditional champion of working people - shoving more money into public services yet struggling to keep a lid on what the workers in those services get paid. Tony Blair's government was facing the biggest labor crisis of its five-year tenure last week as firefighters finished an eight...
...agreement would have required "a blank check," which was out of the question. The mood on Collis' picket line was bitter, only broken by noisy cheers as passing motorists responded to a sign saying honk if you support us. The anger was directed at the government: How could Labour - Labour, for Heaven's sake! - refuse to find money for deserving workers when it was prepared to pay out hundreds of millions of taxpayers' money for a war with Iraq? Says Collis, "I was a Tory, but have voted twice for Labour since 1997 - not again." Collis earns...
...encore performance of one of the great buddy acts of the 1990s - all smiles but with a deadly serious purpose. The Tony-and-Bill Show, which ran for two days last week in the gloriously tacky seaside resort of Blackpool, had just about everyone at the Labour Party conference cheering and stomping and forgetting, at least for a while, about all the issues - privatization, civil liberties, war against Iraq - where so many Labourites have profound disagreements with Tony Blair. These annual rituals are a funny mix of theater, trading floor and reunion. You can see Cabinet ministers getting buttonholed...