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  • Blair's black day of scandal

    04/27/2006 11:26:34 PM PDT · by Aussie Dasher · 19 replies · 728+ views
    The Australian ^ | 28 April 2006
    SCANDAL and crisis engulfed British Prime Minister Tony Blair's Government yesterday as three of his most senior ministers came under growing personal and political pressure on Labour's blackest day since it came to power in 1997. Newspapers gave a damning verdict on the Government's woes, which climaxed in a sex scandal starring the Deputy Prime Minister, a crime blunder by the interior minister and a snub by nurses for the Health Secretary. Home Secretary Charles Clarke was fighting to stay in his job after admitting that 288 foreign prisoners were released without consideration of deportation even after he learnt of...
  • Blair mutiny 'spells the end'

    11/09/2005 7:11:00 PM PST · by Aussie Dasher · 18 replies · 868+ views
    Herald Sun ^ | 10 November 2005
    BRITISH newspapers agreed today that Prime Minister Tony Blair's first-ever defeat in Parliament was a major watershed in his administration. Thanks to 49 rebel Labour MPs, the House of Commons voted down a proposal - championed by Blair in the wake of the deadly London bombings in July - to give police the power to hold terrorism suspects for 90 days without charge. Both The Times and The Daily Mail splashed Blair's setback on their front pages with the identical headline: "Beginning of the end?" "Mr Blair has looked invincible for the past eight years. But after yesterday, he no...