Tony Blair Intends To Quit Next Year
Ankit Gupta - All Headline News Staff Writer London, UK (AHN) - British Prime Minister Tony Blair will resign in just over a year, his former press secretary, Alastair Campbell, said. Campbell said "A year and a bit", according to The Spectator magazine. At a Group of Eight (G8) summit in Russia, Blair said he was looking forward to attending next year's meeting - an indication that he planned to serve at least one more year. The British leader, in his third consecutive term in office, has pledged to step down before the next general election, due by May 2010 at the latest, but has never publicly set a precise exit date. Calls for him to go sooner rather than later have mounted after a series of scandals hit his government and the governing Labour Party. Campbell was appointed Blair's press chief in 1994, when the prime minister was first elected Labour leader. He stepped down in 2003.
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