Blair to confirm resignation next year: reports      (AFP/File)
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AFP/File - British Prime Minister Tony Blair is due to make a statement confirming that he will step down in a year, reports said as the conflict over his leadership reaches boiling point.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair is to  make a statement on his future between 1300 and 1400 GMT on  Thursday, his spokesman said.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair aims   to quit next year after 10 years in office but his reported   departure date failed to quell growing opposition to his   leadership within the government.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair is facing a new claim that he agreed to resign before the end of his second term to make way for Treasury chief Gordon Brown, but then decided to stay on. He denies it.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair can &quot;reasonably&quot; be expected to leave office in about a year's time, a key minister loyal to the embattled leader has said.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair will announce a nine-month policy review that will determine the governing Labour Party's direction for the next decade, according to reports.
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Tony Blair will leave office on July 26,   the Sun newspaper reported in its Wednesday edition, as the   increasingly unpopular prime minister faced growing pressure to   quit from within his own Labor Party.
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Trying to quell politically damaging turmoil snowballing within the ranks of his own Labor Party, British Prime Minister Tony Blair is expected to announce Thursday that he will leave office within a year.
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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.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair said  on Thursday he would resign within a year, after a week of  turmoil in his ruling Labor Party, but rejected calls from  former supporters to name an early departure date.
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Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has revealed he will be leaving office within the next year, along with Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said that he will leave office within 12 months, in a statement aimed at quelling an increasingly damaging row within his Labour government.
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Tony Blair will end his premiership on   July 26 next year, British newspapers reported on Wednesday,   but must confirm this date publicly if he is to stem a revolt   by frustrated members of his ruling Labour party.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair will   step down early in May next year after a revolt by disenchanted   supporters campaigning for him to end almost 10 years in   office, British media reported on Thursday.
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A Labour Party victory in this year's  British election looks a sure bet, analysts say, but a weaker  majority will probably prompt Prime Minister Tony Blair to  resign some time over the next two to three years, a Reuters  poll shows.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair was likely to commit publicly Thursday to a 2007 resignation, forced by intense pressure within his Labour Party into making an announcement he has long resisted, senior ...
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair will   step down from office on May 4, 2007, Sky television said on   Thursday, citing senior Labour Party members.