Blair Told: Go Now ; Party Bosses in Open Revolt As Leadership Race Begins 'He's a Liability...We Need Someone Else'
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TONY BLAIR'S hopes of surviving as Prime Minister looked doomed last night after Labour's grass roots called on him to resign.
The process of appointing a new Labour leader appeared under way after John Prescott dramatically pulled the rug from under Mr Blair's feet yesterday. In an interview the Deputy Prime Minister suggested Mr Blair was on the brink of resigning and the race to succeed him had started.See the full content of this document
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Blair Told: Go Now ; Party Bosses in Open Revolt As Leadership Race Begins 'He's a Liability...We Need Someone Else'
Mr Blair's allies angrily accused Mr Prescott, seen as Labour's 'kingmaker', of deliberately increasing the pressure on Mr Blair to stand down and hand over to Chancellor Gordon Brown.
But it is exactly this outcome that the pa...See the full content of this document
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