Labour hopes to shrug off turmoil
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Labour ministers and MPs call for calm after days of chaos for Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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Unions say they avoided a showdown with Gordon Brown as they did not want to ruin his first conference as leader.
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The ruling Labor Party opened its annual meeting yesterday with elections looming next year, the opposition gaining favor in polls and Prime Minister Tony Blair eager to head off a rebuke over Iraq from his party&#39;s left wing.
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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.
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New Labour is no longer the party of shiny, happy people, and it is no longer fashionable. This may be no bad thing: the party will learn patience and gain intellectual strength.
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BRIGHTON, England  - Tony Blair offered his Labour  party on Tuesday a partial apology for waging war in Iraq -- a  desperate attempt to pull supporters back behind him ahead of  an election next year.
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Talks are to be held in an attempt to avert a strike by workers at the UK's busiest airports.
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Gordon Brown last night led desperate cabinet calls for an end to Labour&#39;s civil war, amid warnings that the bitter clash over who should succeed Tony Blair could cost the party the next election.
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Prime minister and chancellor seek to reassure voters saying they are dealing with the Northern Rock fallout
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Gordon Brown, who takes over as  Britain&#39;s prime minister this week, vowed on Sunday to  revitalize the ruling Labour Party and learn from the  &quot;divisive&quot; Iraq war.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair dismissed talk of resignation and looked ahead to winning a third term in office, as his ruling Labour Party&#39;s annual convention opened Sunday.
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Chancellor Gordon Brown has said Labour had to build a &quot;shared national purpose&quot; and a &quot;progressive consensus&quot; in the run-up to the next election.
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Former Home Secretary Charles Clarke is the latest Labour figure to warn against party infighting.
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Tony Blair urged his Labour Party on Tuesday to unite ahead of an imminent election and sought to heal rifts over Iraq, even as two more British soldiers died and a hostage remained under threat of death.
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The Labour Party has wrapped up its annual congress, relieved at a temporary truce between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown but knowing the issue will not go away.
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Britain's ruling Labour Party struggled to shift the pre-election focus to domestic politics, as Prime Minister Tony Blair faced renewed pressure over the fate of a British hostage in Iraq.
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BRIGHTON, England  - Britain's Labour Party  leaders are to try to shift the focus from Iraq to domestic  policy on Wednesday, after Tony Blair offered a partial apology  for the war.