Iraq will cost Blair votes, says ministerial ally
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LONDON: Iraq will cost Tony Blair votes, a close ministerial ally of the British prime minister said on Tuesday, six months before an expected general election.
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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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Tony Blair has forecast an upsurge in violence in Iraq ahead of planned January elections but says he has not yet decided on a US request for back-up from UK troops.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair made a surprise first visit to Baghdad Tuesday to meet Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi and show support for elections scheduled for January.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair&#39;s attempts to focus his party&#39;s annual conference on domestic issues received a setback yesterday when delegates backed moves to force a vote on a British troop pull-out of Iraq.
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Washington's closest ally in Iraq was  horrified by the beheading of a British hostage there and Prime  Minister Tony Blair urged Britons not to let it undermine their  support for continued involvement in the country.
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Tony Blair is under pressure from his own party to name a date for pulling British troops out of Iraq. The issue is set to dominate the final day of Labour&#39;s conference in Brighton, with delegates set to vote on a motion forced by party members.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair has defended his decision to join the US-led invasion of Iraq, disagreeing with UN chief Kofi Annan's assessment that the war was illegal.
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BRIGHTON, England  - Tony Blair will urge his  party on Tuesday to reunite for an election fight, seeking to  heal rifts over Iraq even as two more British soldiers die in  Basra and a hostage remains under threat of death.
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Britain, America's most important ally in Iraq, will withdraw close to half its troops by the end of the year if local troops are able to secure the southern part of the country, Prime Minister Tony Blair was expected to announce Wednesday.
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The government was accused Saturday of misleading the British public over plans for postwar Iraq after a newspaper reported that Prime Minister Tony Blair was warned a year before the invasion that postwar stability would be difficult.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair has rejected calls for an independent commission to calculate the number of civilians killed and injured since the US-led alliance invaded Iraq in March 2003.
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In a surprise visit to Iraq yesterday, British prime minister Tony Blair said the successful staging of next month&#39;s elections would be a blow not only to Iraqi insurgents but also to world terrorism.
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Washington's closest ally in Iraq was horrified by the beheading of a British hostage there and Prime Minister Tony Blair urged Britons not to let it undermine their support for continued involvement in the country.
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Iraq will not be the decisive factor for Britons in the next election, Tony Blair said on Wednesday, as his party pondered the prime minister's conditional apology over the war.
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Tony Blair was today warned not to put British troops in Iraq in danger merely as a âpolitical gestureâ to the American administration.
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Opposition parties are demanding that the British prime minister apologises for Iraq intelligence errors. Should Tony Blair say "sorry"?