Will he? won't he? Should he? :)

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It would be 10 years of him in power, if he did.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Tony Blair will step down early in May next
year after a revolt by disillusioned loyalists campaigning for him to end
almost 10 years in office, the media reported on Thursday.

Sky Television, citing senior Labour Party members, said the embattled
premier would step down as party leader on May 4, 2007 and a new Prime
Minister would take office in mid-June.

The BBC also said he would go in early May.
Asked to comment on the reports, a spokeswoman for Blair's office
said: "People should not get ahead of themselves and should wait to hear if
or what the prime minister has to say."

Blair is expected to set out a timetable for his departure later on Thursday
in an attempt to defuse a leadership crisis which has engulfed his Labour
Party.

With party colleagues running scared about Blair's growing unpopularity, a
junior minister and seven government aides resigned on Wednesday after
calling on him to step aside.

Any chance of Blair overseeing a stable and orderly handover to his
chancellor and favoured successor Gordon Brown was evaporating with reports
that the two were locked in a furious shouting match in fiery meetings on
Wednesday.

Blair's popularity has tumbled in opinion polls after government scandals
over sleaze and mismanagement were compounded by controversy over the wars in
Iraq and Lebanon.

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Well, I don't like Brown, but it might be good to have a short time of him so
that voters can get sick of him by the next election.

I think that the people in the main still like Tony, and nothing really has
changed from what was going on when he was voted back in. It is like the
ousting of Thatcher all over again.

In the end the people don't decide, but power hungry junior politicians.

I don't think a more left wing labour will retain the hearts and minds of the
British people. The only way Tony did it was to adopt into the Labour party the
bulk of Thatcherite thinking.

I think Tony ought to stay until the Iran problem has been dealt with. I don't
think Brown has the guts to do it, as his backers are all the left who don't
like bombing our enemies, but would prefer to see them triumph over us.