September 12, 2006
When its time to go in politics there is often little choice available --you go. Hanging around can be very painful as Margaret Thatcher discovered, and as Tony Blair is currently experiencing. And the media love a good political bustup. So we have simmering Cabinet tensions over Tony Blair's exit from Downing Street, different camps forming around the conflict over the Labour leadership, and lots of shadows of shadows and many seductive whispers:
Martin Rowson
Blair is currently doing a 3 day tour of the Middle East talking peace, even though his unpopularity among world leaders is surpassed only by President Bush and the Israeli premier, Ehud Olmert. So there he was in the Middle East, having lost the trust of the Palestinians and the Shiite Lebanese because of his unequivocal pro-American/pro Israeli line.
The whispers are saying that Blair can restart the Middle East peace process to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict .
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