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Paper: Blair set to end ten
year reign as British PM on May 9th
Josh Catone
Raw
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Sunday April 22, 2007
British Prime Minister Tony Blair will step down on May 9th, reports
the Sunday Mail.
The decision, according to the paper, was made to preempt any charges
made in the "cash for honors" scandal.
"That will trigger a seven-week leadership election process
in the Labour Party and a new PM - probably Gordon Brown - will
move into 10 Downing Street at the end of June," writes Rob
Gibson.
The Crown Prosecution Service is unlikely to make a decision about
whether to bring criminal charges against some of Blair's aides
for allegedly taking kickbacks, despite ample evidence to do so,
until Blair leaves office, according to the paper.
The Mail quotes an anonymous Labour MP who says that Blair will
leave office on May 9th as the Northern Ireland Executives take
power.
"He wants to go out on a high note, not wait around to hear
if or when the CPS are going to prosecute any of his friends,"
the MP is quoted. "That would be the worst possible way to
bow out."
Blair's heir-apparent, Chancellor Gordon Brown, would be expected
to take power in June.
While most are in agreement that Brown will be Blair's successor
as Prime Minister, there is disagreement over what Brown will bring
to Downing Street.
"Conservatives have been busy over the last few years predicting
that Brown will swing Labour to the left, ushering in a period of
business-unfriendly, bureaucratic centralization," notes the
Press Association, even as Brown has voiced support for nuclear
power, nuclear weapons as a deterrent, and calls for a "Britishness
day."
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