Britain's Labour Party struggles to shift conference focus from Iraq
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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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&quot;[The Labour] party gathers in Brighton for what is probably its last conference before the general election - and certainly its most difficult in years... The subject that overshadows this conference, haunts
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BRIGHTON, England Top aides to British Prime Minister Tony Blair are urging his party not to let the war in Iraq derail their annual convention and election hopes.
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BRITAIN&#39;S Prime Minister Tony Blair hoped to switch attention from the unrelenting bloodshed in Iraq to his campaign for a third term in office with his address today to the Labour Party&#39;s annual conference.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair strives this coming week to rally his Labour Party to fight and win a general election, widely expected in 2005, despite his inability to shake off Iraq as a hot-button issue.
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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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In a powerful speech at the party&#39;s annual conference yesterday, British Prime Minister Tony Blair confronted the opposition to the Iraq war within his own ruling Labour Party and promised 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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Tony Blair is under pressure from his own party to name a date for pulling British troops out of Iraq.
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The Labour Party voted at its annual conference to reject a motion calling for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq as soon as possible, a party source told AFP.
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Tony Blair, at his last annual conference as Labour Party leader, faces fresh calls to withdraw British troops from Iraq in demonstrations that include one on his own doorstep.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair will urge Labour to unite behind a radical third term agenda as he bids to heal party wounds over Iraq. The premier will be speaking after sustaining an expected defeat from conference delegates over rail re-nationalisation.
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Fox-hunting and the Iraq war threaten to overshadow the start of Labour&#39;s conference on Sunday - expected to be the last before the general election.
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UK Prime Minister Tony Blair faces a large Labour party rebellion on plans to renew the UK's  nuclear weapons.
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Britain's press was divided after Prime Minister Tony Blair's annual speech to the Labour Party conference, some giving him credit for admitting the intelligence was wrong over Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction, while others slated him for refusing to apologise over the war in Iraq.
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Fox-hunting and the Iraq war threaten to overshadow Labour's conference in Brighton on Sunday.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair   urged his Labour Party on Tuesday to focus on winning   re-election by adapting to new political challenges, hoping to   end a succession row overshadowing its annual conference.