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Tony Blair usually gets what he wants, as befits a Prime Minister who has led his party to two landslide victories and holds a 165-seat Commons majority. When Blair feels strongly about an issue, opposition M.P.s, Labour backbenchers, even Cabinet ministers with a slightly different viewpoint are left gnashing their teeth as the Downing St. juggernaut powers by - as it recently did on war with Iraq. Why, then, is it Blair who is now standing by in scarcely concealed frustration, impotent to lead Britain into the single currency, and thus to the more central role in Europe...
...winning a referendum dissolve. So on June 9, Blair must acknowledge the euro is off for now while still managing to juice up its supporters - a balancing act that is getting old. Mark Leonard, director of the Foreign Policy Centre in London, a think tank with close ties to Labour, says that "six years of warm words but no action have left Blair with a big credibility gap, both on the Continent and with the pro-European movement here." The Conservatives sense an opportunity to turn the tables on Blair. His tactic has been to paint them as ideological extremists...
...Unmesh Kher and Tim Burge follow the money britain In Baghdad's looted, fire-blackened Foreign Ministry, a Daily Telegraph journalist looking through abandoned files found one labeled "Britain." In it were documents allegedly indicating that Saddam's regime paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to left-wing Labour backbencher George Galloway - a longtime campaigner against sanctions on Iraq - and that Galloway had even demanded a raise. The Glasgow M.P., who is suing the newspaper, told TIME, "The information in them is completely false ... I have not benefited by one cent from 13 years of work on this subject...
...disasters such as the Nazi seizure of Norwegian ports convinced the British public that Neville Chamberlain was not up to the job of fighting a war. By the night of May 8, after a stormy debate in the House of Commons, Chamberlain's position had become untenable. The opposition Labour Party would serve in a government of national unity only if it were led by Churchill, and on the evening of May 10, as German troops massed against France, he accepted office from King George VI. Three days later, Churchill promised Britain only "blood, toil, tears and sweat." What...
...Thatcher arrived at her North London constituency early, in good time for glad-handing and a last bit of publicity. But it was well into the following morning when the last paper ballots from every village and shire came in: the gutsy politician of the zealous right had routed Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan and smashed the gender barrier to become Britain's first female...