As Tories Turn London Blue... Pm's Panic ; Battered Blair Takes an Axe to Clarke and Strawbrown Ally Demands: Now It's Time to Go, Tony Prescott Loses Power but Keeps All His Perks

Evening Standard - London › May 05, 2006

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TONY BLAIR swung an axe at his Cabinet today in a message of defiance to Gordon Brown and MPs urging him to quit.

He fired Charles Clarke as Home Secretary, demoted Jack Straw from Foreign Secretary to Leader of the Commons and stripped John Prescott of part of his job.

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As Tories Turn London Blue... Pm's Panic ; Battered Blair Takes an Axe to Clarke and Strawbrown Ally Demands: Now It's Time to Go, Tony Prescott Loses Power but Keeps All His Perks

But his enemies were fighting back.

Former Cabinet minister Andrew Smith, a leading ally of the Chancellor, openly called for the Prime Minister to go.

Labour chairman Ian McCartney was sacked after dreadful council election results which saw David Cameron's ...

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