Blair Gets Bloody Nose As Bin Factor Hits Home ; Labour Losses Set the Scene for a Close-Fought General Election After Tories Pull 14 Points Ahead
Evening Standard - London › May 05, 2007
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TONY BLAIR took a battering in his final election battle today as voters punished Labour from the South- East to Scotland.
In a night of drama, Labour lost hundreds of English council seats, saw power slip away in the Welsh Assembly and wake to see the totemic fight against the SNP for the Scottish Parliament on a knife- edge.See the full content of this document
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Blair Gets Bloody Nose As Bin Factor Hits Home ; Labour Losses Set the Scene for a Close-Fought General Election After Tories Pull 14 Points Ahead
It was not the all-out catastrophe for Labour that some had feared though a Scottish defeat when the final results come out tonight would be disastrous but it set the scene for a close- fought general election between David Cameron and Gordon Brown.
Mr Cameron had a good night, notching up the equivalent to a 41 per cent share of a general election vote 14 points ahead ...See the full content of this document
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