Blair Seeks to Shift Focus Away From Iraq
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Prime Minister Tony Blair was hoping use his party's annual conference to switch attention from Iraq to his campaign for a third term in office, but the unrelenting bloodshed in Iraq and the kidnapping of a British engineer are eclipsing the event.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair is due to hold talks with Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi at Downing Street. Their meeting comes after Mr Blair played down claims that he had been warned a year before the war to
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Britain's ruling Labour Party was struggling to shift the pre-election focus to domestic politics, as Prime Minister Tony Blair was called on yet again to defend the war in Iraq.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair tried to bridge the trans-Atlantic rift over Iraq, urging a &quot;fractured, divided and uncertain&quot; world to unite in the wake of President Bush&#39;s election victory.
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Britain's involvement in Iraq is likely to overshadow the annual conference of Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labor Party, despite the British leader's efforts to shift the focus to domestic issues.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair faced calls on Thursday for British troops to quit Iraq as delegates to his Labour Party&#39;s annual conference vented their anger over last year&#39;s US-led war.
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President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, each facing pressure to pull back from a long, unpopular war, are gauging the ability of Iraq&#039;s new government to shoulder a bigger role. But Bush&#039;s spokesman said Thursday the two leaders are not about to declare, &quot;We&#039;re all coming home.&quot;
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British prime minister Tony Blair held talks Tuesday with Iraq's interim prime minister Ayad Allawi, during a surprise visit to Iraq that comes ahead of national elections and amid a fierce insurgency.
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Britain is considering a request to shift some of its forces in Iraq to allow an attack on rebels in Fallujah, Prime Minister Tony Blair&#39;s spokesman said, denying the move was related to the US presidential election.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair is expected to announce on Wednesday that Britain will start to withdraw its troops from Iraq within weeks, British media said.Comment
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair says his country and the United States will send a team to Iraq to reassess the security situation there.
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Unable to calm the controversy over a US request to redeploy British troops in Iraq, Prime Minister Tony Blair is facing dissent from within his party ranks.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair is expected to announce on Wednesday that Britain will start to withdraw its troops from Iraq within weeks, British media said.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair faced angry protests as he urged his party to set aside its differences over Iraq and seize the chance of an historic third term in power.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair will  stress the need for Europe and the United States to put  differences over Iraq behind them and work together to tackle  issues such as Middle East peace in a speech on Monday.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair has conceded that US-led forces are not winning the war in Iraq, as he headed for Washington to discuss strategic options in the war-scarred country.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair will announce on Wednesday that thousands of his country's troops are to begin withdrawing from Iraq in weeks, media reports said.