Blair’s 10-year leadership to end ‘within weeks’
The 24Dash web site carries a PA story with further speculation about Gordon Brown’s attitude to ID cards:
Tony Blair’s decade at 10 Downing Street marks him out as one of those rare politicians who put their stamp on an era.
But no sooner has that milestone been passed than the Blair era will come to an end, with the Prime Minister’s resignation expected within weeks, or even days.
There is almost universal agreement that Mr Blair’s successor will be Chancellor Gordon Brown. But the apparent inevitability of this long-awaited transition masks a considerable degree of uncertainty about the era to come.
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No-one doubts that Mr Brown is planning to hit the ground running with 100 days of eye-catching policy announcements to match the declaration of independence for the Bank of England he made within days of becoming Chancellor.
Only a few in the Chancellor’s inner circle know what those announcements will involve. Speculation revolves around the creation of a written constitution, a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq, NHS independence, scrapping ID cards or a Whitehall shake-up including the abolition of the Department of Trade and Industry.
April 27th, 2007 at 11:11
Please see also Hélène Mulholland’s article in the Guardian, Blair may quit before Thursday’s elections.