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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Matthew Tempest

Blair crisis - can he survive?


Tony Blair gives a speech on social
exclusion at the Folk Hall, York, on
Tuesday.
Photograph: John Giles/WPA/PA.
Is the putsch under way?

This morning probably few people outside the Labour party (and even some within it) could have put faces to the names of Tom Watson, Chris Mole, Ian Lucas and the other four loyal PPSs who today resigned in protest at Mr Blair's refusal to name a departure date.

Tonight they could be the men who pushed the PM, kicking and screaming, out of No 10 Downing Street.

If it all seems reminiscent of the troubled Major years, this piece has some helpful advice for the PM.

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