Blair tries to reconnect with voters as Iraq specter raised again
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Prime Minister Tony Blair was set on a path of reconnecting with disenchanted voters weeks before Britain's general elections, as opposition leaders again played the Iraq and immigration cards.
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GATESHEAD, England -- Prime Minister Tony Blair, whose popularity crashed amid the Iraq war, appealed to voters yesterday for a third term in office.
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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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BRIGHTON, England  - Tony Blair said on Wednesday  he believed Iraq would not be the decisive issue when Britons  come to vote at next year's expected election.
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Tony Blair kept looking behind him when being challenged over the decision to re-deploy UK troops in Iraq. Was he looking for cheers of support from his backbenchers, or watching for the knives spinning towards his back?
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Iraq s interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi met on Sunday with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, for talks likely to be dominated by the need to improve security before Iraq s January elections.
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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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British troops would be redeployed in Iraq to help stabilize the conflict-torn country, not boost President Bush's chances of re-election, Prime Minister Tony Blair said Wednesday as he tried to quell dissent among skeptical lawmakers.
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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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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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Tony Blair last night stood accused of conspiring to use British troops in Iraq as a &quot;political gesture&quot; to help George W Bush in the US presidential election.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair is attempting to win back political support by recalibrating his policy in the Middle East, but it is likely to prove too late to save his job.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair has arrived back from his diplomatic mission to the Middle East to try to resurrect the peace process. Mr Blair held talks with his Israeli counterpart, Ariel Sharon, and the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas.
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BRIGHTON, ENGLAND -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair tried yesterday to heal divisions over the Iraq war and unite his Labour party to fight for a historic third term in power.
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Despite the presumed political damage suffered by Prime Minister Tony Blair over Iraq, voters are largely unconcerned at events in the country.
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UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, whose approval rating slumped because of his support for the Iraq war, may win an unprecedented third term as voters give him credit for an expanding economy and falling unemployment, polls show.
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Political opponents of Prime Minister Tony Blair launched a renewed attack on his handling of the Iraq conflict Sunday, as British soldiers prepared to move deeper into the country to support U.S. troops.