Blair Battles Own Political Party on UK Iraq Policy
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Description: NPR&#39;s Alex Chadwick talks to Colin Brown, deputy political editor for the United Kingdom&#39;s Independent newspaper, currently covering the British Labour Party Conference.
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LONDON -- Political opponents of Prime Minister Tony Blair launched a renewed attack on his handling of the Iraq conflict yesterday, as British soldiers prepared to move deeper into the country to support US troops.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair defended the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and rounded on the media Tuesday for acting like a &quot;feral beast&quot; ripping reputations apart.
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Britain's Tony Blair faces one of the trickiest speeches of his career on Tuesday, seeking to win back his Labour Party after rifts over Iraq and spell out new policies to set up next year's re-election bid.
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BRIGHTON, England  - The anguish of a British  hostage in Iraq hangs over Prime Minister Tony Blair on  Thursday as he faces the twin test of a local election and a  debate by his Labour Party about the divisive war.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair tried Tuesday to heal divisions over the Iraq war and unite his Labour Party to fight for a historic third term in power, acknowledging that intelligence used to justify the invasion was wrong but insisting the world was safer
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LONDON: British Prime Minister Tony Blair angrily denied allegations from his political foes yesterday that he "misrepresented" intelligence in making the case to join the US-led invasion of Iraq last year.
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BOURNEMOUTH, England  - Britain's Conservative  leader sought to capitalize on voters' anger with Tony Blair  over the Iraq war as he started an uphill battle to push the  prime minister from office in the next election.
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Iraq overshadowed the start of Tony Blair's Labour Party conference on Sunday despite the prime minister's efforts to turn attention to the domestic agenda ahead of a general election expected next year.
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BRIGHTON, England  - Britain's Tony Blair faces  one of the trickiest speeches of his career on Tuesday, seeking  to win back his Labour Party after rifts over Iraq and spell  out new policies to set up next year's re-election bid.
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BRIGHTON, England - Dogged by opposition to the Iraq war, Prime Minister Tony Blair tried to focus attention on domestic issues as the governing Labour Party's annual convention opened Sunday and insisted he hadn't considered resigning earlier this year.   "I'm not the wobbling sort," Blair, a staunch U.S...
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With his fate tied to the chaos in Iraq, Prime Minister Tony Blair faces his ruling Labour Party next week, hoping to calm anger over the war and shore up his government ahead of national elections.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair issued a staunch defence of his record on Iraq Thursday after announcing a major troop withdrawal, and also insisted there is &quot;no planning&quot; under way for an attack on Iran.
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As British Prime Minister Tony Blair battles to save his job, poll findings that a significant majority of Britons want the country to distance itself from U.S. foreign policy point to the role his alignment ...
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UK Prime Minister Tony Blair attacked opponents of his decision to take the nation to war in Iraq, saying allowing Saddam Hussein to remain in power would have risked the murder of more Iraqis.
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Be it gambling or smoking, Tony Blair often molds domestic decisions to suit public opinion but on foreign policy the British prime minister stands firm whatever the cost in popularity.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair, who supported the Iraq war at considerable political peril, could use some payback from the United States with British elections around the corner.