PM gone within year, allies say
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Close allies indicate Tony Blair will stand down within 12 months, as normally loyal MPs urge him to quit.
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&quot;The announcement by Tony Blair that next year&#39;s election campaign will be his last is a disaster ... The reality is that the prime minister will have to hand over the reins of power long before this government reaches the end of a third term .
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Prime Minister Tony Blair is to make a statement on his future indicating he plans to resign within a year, but will not give an exact date for his departure, Downing Street confirmed.
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ROME  -  Stung by a bruising foreign policy defeat, beleaguered Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigned Wednesday, his center-left government collapsing after just nine months in power.Comment
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair is set   to say on Thursday he will step down within a year but is not   contemplating resigning immediately, his spokesman said.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair is set  to say on Thursday he will step down within a year, rejecting  growing calls from within his ruling Labor Party for a new  leader to revive its fortunes.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair said   on Thursday he would quit within a year but refused to give an   exact date to placate Labor Party mutineers who want a speedy   change of leader to revive their fortunes.
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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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LONDON -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair tried yesterday to stifle a growing revolt in his Labor Party by pledging to quit within a year, but his critics said a change of leader was needed sooner to win back voters.
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Prime Minister Romano Prodi may resign in the wake of a defection by a key parliamentary ally.
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Zimbabwe's veteran leader Robert Mugabe, due to step down in 2008, looked certain to have his presidency extended by a further two years as his ruling party concluded its annual conference.
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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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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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LONDON, Sept. 7 -- Prime Minister Tony Blair, the second-longest-serving British leader since the 19th century, will resign his post within the next 12 months, a spokesman in his office said today.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair looked   set to bow to intense pressure from disgruntled loyalists on   Thursday and lay out a timetable for his departure within a   year after almost a decade in office.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair is expected to vow to resign within a year to stop an increasingly damaging crisis engulfing his government, officials said, but calls for him to go sooner remain.
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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.