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Article: Now we'll find out what Labour really thinks of Tony Blair; As the Prime Minister, for the first time, faces real adversity...
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- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 28, 2003
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Byline: PETER OBORNE
ONLY two or three times in the past century has the reputation of a serving Prime Minister fallen as fast or as far as Tony Blair's over the balmy summer months.
One example is John Major after Black Wednesday 1992. Another, and even more relevant, is Anthony Eden after the Suez debacle of 1956.
Tony Blair prepares to face his Labour Conference at Bournemouth this week as a wounded and weakened leader.
Public trust in the Prime Minister has fallen so dramatically that opinion polls show an astonishing 50 per cent of voters now want him to quit office.
So, almost as tellingly, do half of his own MPs. A ...