<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Labour Party: News &amp; Videos about Labour Party - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Labour_Party</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Labour Party from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:35:25 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Labour Party: News &amp; Videos about Labour Party - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com//cnn/2009/WORLD/europe/06/05/britain.pm.cabinet.reshuffle/tztop.jpg</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Labour_Party</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Labour Party from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>British PM Brown: 'I will not walk away'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/06/05/britain.pm.cabinet.reshuffle/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/06/05/britain.pm.cabinet.reshuffle/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>British Prime Minister Gordon Brown issued a defiant response to calls for his resignation Friday saying he "will not walk away" despite heavy election losses and a raft of high profile resignations that forced a Cabinet reshuffle.</description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:08:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>UK minister quits, calls for Brown's resignation</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/06/04/britain.minister.resignation/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/06/04/britain.minister.resignation/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Thursday he was "disappointed" over the resignation of his work and pensions secretary, the third Cabinet minister to step down in as many days.</description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:48:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>British MP cut adrift over $24,000 expense claim</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/05/14/uk.mps.expenses.scandal/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/05/14/uk.mps.expenses.scandal/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Britain's ruling Labour Party cut ties Thursday with a top member of parliament who admitted guilt in an escalating parliamentary expenses scandal.</description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 15:03:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Stanford scandal sets Antigua on edge</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/24/news/Allen_Stanford_Antigua_elections.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/24/news/Allen_Stanford_Antigua_elections.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>Antigua is usually filled with the sounds of birds chirping and fronds rustling, but the hum of paradise is lately disrupted by more than the latest financial scandal. As the country closes in on a critical national election, bullhorned cars wind down the narrow lanes blaring support for the incumbent United Progressive Party and the once mighty Antigua Labour Party. The name of R. Allen Stanford (Sir Stanford to locals) is heard as well. The knighted businessman isn't running for office, but his close ties to the Labour Party could have a decisive influence on this tight race.</description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:34:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Analysis: Can things get any worse for Brown?</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/09/21/analysis.oakley.brown/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/09/21/analysis.oakley.brown/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>At the height of the troubles over the near-collapse of the Northern Rock bank a minister walked into the British Treasury and asked "How's it going?"</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:19:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Lost: Labour's Love for Brown</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1808953,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1808953,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Just when the party thought the worst was over, it loses a once solid seat in a by-election. Now, the backbenchers are getting restless</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 17:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>UK Tories Win in Special Election</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1808920,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1808920,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Britain's Conservatives crushed the governing Labour Party in a special election that underlined the deepening unpopularity of Prime Minister Gordon Brown's government</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 16:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cherie Blair Pens Autobiography</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1739101,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1739101,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Tony Blair considered not running for a third term as British prime minister but his wife and others persuaded him it would be seen as an admission that he had been wrong about the Iraq war, she says in her newly published autobiography</description><pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Labour Loses London
</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1737166,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1737166,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Conservative Boris Johnson wins the mayor's office in a rout of Britain's ruling party in local elections</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 22:30:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>UK PM faces election results nightmare </title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/05/02/brown.localelections/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/05/02/brown.localelections/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown's leadership is under pressure after his party suffered its worst local election results for a generation. </description><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 11:57:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Eccentric duo battle in London vote </title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/05/01/borisken.mayor/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/05/01/borisken.mayor/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The contest to be London's mayor, running a city of about 13 million people, has come at a crucial moment in British politics. It could help determine the outcome of the next general election.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 20:51:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Money Scandal Adds to Brown's Woes
</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1689489,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1689489,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Gordon Brown always wanted to emulate his predecessor Tony Blair. But being investigated wasn't what he had in mind</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>UK asks: What kind of man is new PM?</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/06/26/brown.oakley/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/06/26/brown.oakley/index.html</guid><description>When Tony Blair strode across a Manchester stage on Sunday June 24 and declared, "the new leader of the Labour Party, Gordon Brown," it was the moment his Downing Street neighbor had been waiting for, with growing impatience, for 13 years.</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:24:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blair backs Brown leadership bid</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/11/brown.bid/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/11/brown.bid/index.html</guid><description>Gordon Brown has launched his campaign to be Britain's next prime minister, a day after Tony Blair announced he would stand down in June. Earlier, Blair delivered a ringing endorsement of Brown, who has served as his finance minister since 1997.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 08:48:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blair's modernizing legacy weighed down by war</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/10/blair.legacy/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/10/blair.legacy/index.html</guid><description>On a heady night in May 1997, a boyish Tony Blair -- triumphant and smiling -- greeted his giddy, flag-waving supporters, as the catchy pop tune "Things Can Only Get Better" played in the background.</description><pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2007 12:08:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blair: My political journey is over</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/10/blair.announcement/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/10/blair.announcement/index.html</guid><description>Tony Blair announced Thursday he would step down as Labour Party leader and British prime minister, defending his record during his decade in power, but adding "my apologies to you for the times I've fallen short."</description><pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2007 09:47:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Facts: Life and times of Tony Blair</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/10/blair.facts/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/10/blair.facts/index.html</guid><description>As Tony Blair's time in office draws to a close, here are some key facts about Britain's long-serving prime minister.</description><pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2007 09:18:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blair set to announce departure</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/09/blair.announcement/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/09/blair.announcement/index.html</guid><description>British Prime Minister Tony Blair met with his Cabinet Thursday morning ahead of an expected midday announcement that he will stand down as Labour Party leader and prime minister after a decade in power.</description><pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2007 03:02:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blair faces final electoral test</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/03/blair.elections/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/03/blair.elections/index.html</guid><description>Prime Minister Tony Blair led his beleaguered Labour Party into electoral combat for the final time Thursday in local and regional elections that, amid his unpopularity, could put Scotland on the road toward independence from the rest of Britain.</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 08:58:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Funds scandal: Police quiz Blair</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/12/14/uk.blair/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/12/14/uk.blair/index.html</guid><description>British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been questioned by police in connection with a political fundraising scandal, his spokesperson said.</description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:36:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Blair tells Labour Party 'it's right to let go'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/09/26/uk.blair.labour/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/09/26/uk.blair.labour/index.html</guid><description>British Prime Minister Tony Blair has addressed the Labour Party for the last time as its leader, saying "it's the right time to go" and calling on members to continue the reforms of the past decade in order to win a fourth term in government.</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 09:52:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blair: I will resign within a year</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/09/07/britain.blair/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/09/07/britain.blair/index.html</guid><description>British Prime Minister Tony Blair says he will resign from office within a year, but has refused to set a date for his departure.</description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2006 04:10:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blair deputy in Bush insult storm</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/08/17/uk.prescott/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/08/17/uk.prescott/index.html</guid><description>Tony Blair's deputy John Prescott  denied Thursday a report he called U.S. President George W. Bush "crap" and "a cowboy."</description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2006 08:56:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rumsfeld vindicated</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/22/tyrrell.rumsfeld/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/22/tyrrell.rumsfeld/index.html</guid><description>Awash as we are in the cranky appraisals of our war in Iraq and the congressional projects to end it summarily, we have every reason to conclude that for some Americans a real war is not nearly as amusing as one produced in Hollywood. A real war is a lot more difficult to script than a war headed for the silver screen. Inopportune events take place. Even uncovenanted happenings occur. During World War II more than 14,000 American POWs died in German and Japanese hands. President Franklin Roosevelt had not anticipated such brutal treatment. Other unanticipated enormities took place, for instance, the dithering in the hedgerows of France after the D-Day landings. Still, no congressional investigations were convened to distract our leaders from bringing the war to a diplomatically viable conclusion.</description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2006 20:32:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blair: I will not set leaving date</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/05/08/britain.blair/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/05/08/britain.blair/index.html</guid><description>British Prime Minister Tony Blair told his monthly news conference that to set a date for his retirement would "paralyze" the working of his government.</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 May 2006 10:20:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iraq crisis adds to Blair's woes</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/05/07/britain.iraq/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/05/07/britain.iraq/index.html</guid><description>Critics of the Iraq war have urged UK Prime Minister Tony Blair to resign after a helicopter crash killed up to five British soldiers in Basra.</description><pubDate>Sun, 07 May 2006 12:05:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>UK has first woman foreign secretary</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/05/05/britain.beckett/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/05/05/britain.beckett/index.html</guid><description>Margaret Beckett, who once briefly led the Labour Party -- the first woman to do so -- has become Britain's first woman foreign secretary following a major Cabinet reshuffle.</description><pubDate>Fri, 05 May 2006 11:12:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Embattled Blair axes top ministers</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/05/05/britain.elections/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/05/05/britain.elections/index.html</guid><description>UK Prime Minister Tony Blair axed his under-fire law and order minister and demoted his foreign secretary in a wide-ranging Cabinet reshuffle after his party was humiliated in regional elections.</description><pubDate>Fri, 05 May 2006 07:48:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blair suffers local poll defeat</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/05/04/britain.elections/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/05/04/britain.elections/index.html</guid><description>British Prime Minister Tony Blair's embattled Labour Party suffered major losses in local elections in England, which could increase pressure on Blair to announce a date for stepping down as prime minister.</description><pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2006 05:46:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Tyrrell: Why Tony Blair should stay</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/03/23/tyrrell.blair/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/03/23/tyrrell.blair/index.html</guid><description>The Economist, Britain's venerable weekly news magazine, has called on Prime Minister Tony Blair to resign. The magazine's political leaning in the United Kingdom is to the right of the newsweeklies in the United States. In fact, the Economist's political position is right of center, though it is very fastidious about the positions it takes. Reading it is somewhat like reading the official voice of the Vatican, though with none of the puckish humor of L'Osservatore Romano. 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Security Council if Tehran breached its nuclear obligations.</description><pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2005 10:48:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blair confronts his critics</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/05/11/british.election/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/05/11/british.election/index.html</guid><description>British Prime Minister Tony Blair has faced down his critics at a packed meeting of Labour MPs at the start of a new session of parliament.</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2005 08:10:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Parties struggle to spin victory</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/05/09/oakley.blog.09/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/05/09/oakley.blog.09/index.html</guid><description>Politicians wouldn't be politicians unless they could see a silver lining in every cloud.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2005 10:47:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blair 'will defy calls to 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victory</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/05/06/british.election.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/05/06/british.election.main/index.html</guid><description>Tony Blair, elected to a historic third term as Britain's prime minister, announced his Cabinet changes after acknowledging that the Iraq war was "a deeply divisive issue" that hurt his Labour Party.</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2005 11:05:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>UK papers: 'Bloody nose' for Blair</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/05/06/uk.election.press/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/05/06/uk.election.press/index.html</guid><description>Britain's robust press reacted in predictable fashion to Thursday's re-election of Tony Blair's Labour government, with many saying the prime minister's reduced majority was a backlash to the war in Iraq and predicting his days at No. 10 Downing Street were numbered.</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2005 10:38:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blair back with reduced majority</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/05/06/british.election.main0140/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/05/06/british.election.main0140/index.html</guid><description>Prime Minister Tony Blair has won a historic third term for his Labour Party -- but with his authority dented by a reduced majority in parliament.</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2005 05:40:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Shock win for Labour Iraq rebel</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/05/06/uk.election.galloway/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/05/06/uk.election.galloway/index.html</guid><description>A fiercely anti-war lawmaker expelled from Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour Party won re-election to parliament as an independent, saying in an angry acceptance speech, "Mr. Blair, this is for Iraq."</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2005 04:55:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>PM hears soldier's father attack</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/05/05/british.election.father/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/05/05/british.election.father/index.html</guid><description>Prime Minister Tony Blair was forced to stand and listen in the background as a father whose son was killed in Iraq criticized his going to war.</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2005 02:12:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Tories right option, says Thatcher</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/05/05/uk.election.thatcher/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/05/05/uk.election.thatcher/index.html</guid><description>The Conservative Party is still the right option for Britain, Baroness Thatcher insisted in a rare interview screened on CNN.</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2005 01:26:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blair's secret weapon: Brown's record</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/05/04/british.election.brown/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/05/04/british.election.brown/index.html</guid><description>In classical mythology, the giant Atlas had the task of bearing the heavens on his shoulders -- a task requiring not only heavy lifting but also a finely tuned sense of balance.</description><pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2005 15:31:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Strain starts to show on Blair</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/05/03/oakley.blog.03/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/05/03/oakley.blog.03/index.html</guid><description>Who was that ageing figure with his wispy, graying hair and lined face buying an ice cream on the campaign trail for Chancellor Gordon Brown?</description><pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2005 11:49:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Families of soldiers attack Blair</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/05/03/ukelection.iraq/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/05/03/ukelection.iraq/index.html</guid><description>UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is facing renewed criticism over his decision to send troops to Iraq as he heads into the final days of an election campaign.</description><pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2005 09:22:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>And the winner is ... Gordon Brown</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/05/02/oakley.blog.02/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/05/02/oakley.blog.02/index.html</guid><description>Three days to go and already this election campaign has thrown up one sure-fire winner.</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2005 13:23:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blair keeps healthy lead in polls</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/05/02/ukelection.polls/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/05/02/ukelection.polls/index.html</guid><description>UK Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour Party retained a healthy lead in opinion polls published Monday, as the national election campaign entered its final three days.</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2005 09:04:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Vote row over 'Blair lied' remarks</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/27/uk.election/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/27/uk.election/index.html</guid><description>British opposition leader Michael Howard has been defending his personal attacks on Prime Minister Tony Blair, in which he has accused him of lying over the war in Iraq.</description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2005 11:49:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blair plays down 'half-time' lead</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/26/oakley.blog.26/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/26/oakley.blog.26/index.html</guid><description>Conservative leader Michael Howard says publicly that his party is 2-0 down at half-time in the British election. Is that a "Beware of the Underdog" warning, a plea for sympathy or a shrewd election tactic?</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:50:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iraq factor: Blair's 34 words</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/25/blair.iraq.oakley/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/25/blair.iraq.oakley/index.html</guid><description>In the run-up to the war in Iraq, British intelligence agents worked to find out what weapons Saddam Hussein may or may not have had.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:36:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Does Howard regret dumping the blond?</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/25/oakley.blog.25/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/25/oakley.blog.25/index.html</guid><description>The best thing about banging your head against the wall is when you get to stop doing so. Ten days out from polling day Britain's politicians must know the feeling.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:20:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>'Black hole' swallows tax pledges</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/22/oakley.blog.daythirteen/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/22/oakley.blog.daythirteen/index.html</guid><description>Home Secretary Charles Clarke likes his food, and it shows, so much so that the tabloid newspapers have taken to calling him "two pizzas" Clarke.</description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:53:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>UK top-selling paper backs Blair</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/21/uk.election.sun/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/21/uk.election.sun/index.html</guid><description>There was a new boost for Prime Minister Tony Blair when Britain's biggest selling newspaper said it was backing him for re-election.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2005 08:55:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>A-Z of British election issues</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/20/oakley.blog.dayeleven/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/20/oakley.blog.dayeleven/index.html</guid><description>A is for Advertising, which at election times more than ever reminds us of George Orwell's definition of the trade: "The rattling of sticks in swill buckets."</description><pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2005 11:28:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Europe no star as election issue</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/19/oakley.blog.dayten/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/19/oakley.blog.dayten/index.html</guid><description>British insularity, and self-belief, was famously demonstrated by the old 1940s newspaper headline: "Fog in Channel: Continent cut off." But something similar seems to be happening in this election. Europe has been cut off again for the duration of the contest.</description><pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2005 13:02:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Tory leader Howard under pressure</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/19/britain.election/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/19/britain.election/index.html</guid><description>UK Conservative party leader Michael Howard was under pressure Tuesday with his party flagging in opinion polls and being attacked for his tough stand on immigration and asylum seekers.</description><pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2005 12:26:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Polls make election clear as mud</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/18/oakley.blog.daynine/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/18/oakley.blog.daynine/index.html</guid><description>Voters have not yet been shaken or stirred in this so far rather mechanical election. But they must certainly be utterly bemused by the figures thrown at them.</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:45:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iraq looms over UK election battle</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/18/uk.galloway/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/18/uk.galloway/index.html</guid><description>Iraq is featuring as a major issue in the UK election battle with several candidates from a new anti-war party standing against prominent MPs in Prime Minister Tony Blair's ruling Labour party.</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2005 12:44:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blair playing the 'team player'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/13/oakley.blog.daysix/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/13/oakley.blog.daysix/index.html</guid><description>Conservative leader Michael Howard has been chiding Tony Blair for being all words and no action. Risky then that Labour's manifesto, launched Wednesday, stretched to 112 pages compared with the 38 pages of Howard's own offering. But they were smaller pages.</description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 16:45:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blair unveils election platform</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/13/uk.blair.manifesto/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/13/uk.blair.manifesto/index.html</guid><description>British Prime Minister Tony Blair has unveiled his party's list of promises for the election he hopes will make history by giving his center-left Labour party a third consecutive term.</description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 09:41:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Tories slam Blair 'broken pledges'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/11/britain.conservatives/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/11/britain.conservatives/index.html</guid><description>British opposition leader Michael Howard has attacked Prime Minister Tony Blair's "broken promises," saying: "I'm going into battle for Britain."</description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2005 08:38:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Day Two: Howard up, up, up?</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/07/oakley.blog.daytwo/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/07/oakley.blog.daytwo/index.html</guid><description>The final prime minister's question time of the 2001-2005 Parliament was a clear points victory for Conservative leader Michael Howard.</description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2005 10:58:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blair moves to calm Brown talk</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/06/uk.blair.brown/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/06/uk.blair.brown/index.html</guid><description>Prime Minister Tony Blair sought to calm pre-election tensions inside his party with a hint that chief finance minister Gordon Brown would stay in his post if Labour wins the May 5 poll.</description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2005 09:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blair head-to-head with opponent</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/06/uk.blair.howard/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/06/uk.blair.howard/index.html</guid><description>Prime Minister Tony Blair went head to head with Conservative challenger Michael Howard in lively exchanges in parliament with an election campaign in Britain firmly under way.</description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2005 08:33:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Polls show Blair lead slashed</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/05/uk.election.polls/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/05/uk.election.polls/index.html</guid><description>Britain's opposition Conservative party has narrowed the gap on Prime Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour Party, a clutch of opinion polls published Tuesday showed.</description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2005 08:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blair calls election for May 5</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/05/uk.election.blair/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/05/uk.election.blair/index.html</guid><description>Prime Minister Tony Blair has called  Britain's general election for May 5 after seeing the queen to ask for the dissolution of parliament.</description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2005 07:19:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Analysis: Can Blair make it three in a row?</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/02/uk.election/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/02/uk.election/index.html</guid><description>Tony Blair took Labour back to power after 18 years with a landslide victory in 1997. He did it again in 2001. But can he achieve his ambition of becoming the first leader in his party's history to win it three full terms in a row?</description><pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2005 14:30:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Tory official fired in cuts row</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/03/25/uk.tories.resign/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/03/25/uk.tories.resign/index.html</guid><description>Britain's Conservative party leader has fired a former deputy chairman as a candidate at the next election for implying the party was concealing its true spending plans from voters.</description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2005 10:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Nazi row mayor 'to express regret'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/02/20/britain.livingstone/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/02/20/britain.livingstone/index.html</guid><description>London Mayor Ken Livingstone is expected to express regret this week for comparing a Jewish newspaper reporter to a Nazi concentration camp guard, his deputy said Sunday.</description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2005 14:34:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Blair to Nazi row mayor: Say sorry</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/02/16/britain.livingstone/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/02/16/britain.livingstone/index.html</guid><description>British Prime Minister Tony Blair has called on London Mayor Ken Livingstone to apologize for a tirade in which he accused a Jewish reporter of behaving like a Nazi concentration camp guard.</description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:20:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Blair seeks to crush talk of feud</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/01/10/uk.blairbrown/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/01/10/uk.blairbrown/index.html</guid><description>British Prime Minister Tony Blair has told lawmakers from his ruling Labour Party he will not allow anything to wreck its unity as reports intensify of a rift with chief finance minister Gordon Brown.</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2005 11:45:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Test for Blair-Bush relationship </title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/09/blair.bush.oakley/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/09/blair.bush.oakley/index.html</guid><description>Just how pleased was Tony Blair to see George W. Bush returned for a second U.S. presidential term? And just how much of a payoff will Bush give the British prime minister for his loyal support on Iraq and other issues?</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2004 18:39:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>MPs vent Iraq troops fury on Blair</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/10/20/blair.iraq/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/10/20/blair.iraq/index.html</guid><description>UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has forecast more violence in Iraq ahead of planned January elections but says he has not yet decided on a U.S. request for back-up from UK troops.</description><pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2004 09:12:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blair 'fine' after heart treatment</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/10/01/blair/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/10/01/blair/index.html</guid><description>British Prime Minister Tony Blair has arrived home saying he felt "absolutely fine" after successfully undergoing treatment to correct an irregular heartbeat.</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2004 06:40:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Profile of Tony Blair</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/09/30/blair.profile/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/09/30/blair.profile/index.html</guid><description>Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since May 1, 1997.</description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2004 22:04:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blair: No apology for Iraq war</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/09/28/blair.labour/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/09/28/blair.labour/index.html</guid><description>British Prime Minister Tony Blair has refused to apologize for the Iraq war but admitted that the intelligence on Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction "turned out to be wrong."</description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2004 07:42:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blair under party's Iraq spotlight</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/09/27/blair.labour/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/09/27/blair.labour/index.html</guid><description>British Prime Minister Tony Blair is once again being dogged by events in Iraq as he faces the last conference of his Labour Party before next spring's expected national elections.</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2004 08:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blair: Labour will win third term</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/07/24/uk.blair.thirdterm/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/07/24/uk.blair.thirdterm/index.html</guid><description>British Prime Minister Tony Blair says his Labour Party is poised to win a historic third term in power.</description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2004 12:53:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>EU comeback for Blair ally</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/07/23/uk.mandelson/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/07/23/uk.mandelson/index.html</guid><description>Prime Minister Tony Blair has tapped his old ally and European enthusiast Peter Mandelson -- who twice resigned under a cloud from ministerial posts -- as Britain's new EU commissioner.</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2004 09:11:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blair: UK won't pull out of EU</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/06/15/uk.blair/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/06/15/uk.blair/index.html</guid><description>British Prime Minister Tony Blair, reacting to big election gains by anti-European Union candidates, has pledged to keep the UK within the 25-nation bloc.</description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:02:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blair punished at British polls</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/06/11/uk.blair0400/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/06/11/uk.blair0400/index.html</guid><description>In a stinging backlash to Prime Minister Tony Blair, Britain's ruling Labour Party has suffered heavy losses in local elections.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2004 07:56:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blair sorry over poll outcome</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/06/11/uk.blair/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/06/11/uk.blair/index.html</guid><description>British Prime Minister Tony Blair has apologized to Labour Party councillors who lost in local elections, acknowledging the shadow cast by Iraq.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2004 05:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blair's Super Thursday test</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/06/10/eu.vote.blair/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/06/10/eu.vote.blair/index.html</guid><description>For British Prime Minister Tony Blair, it was Super Thursday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2004 08:11:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The sentence you love to hate, Looney Tunes at Exxon, the case for a martini, and other matters. GREAT MOMENTS IN GENDER EQUITY</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/11/28/79992/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/11/28/79992/index.htm</guid><description>Labour Party officials have made an impromptu ruling on whether a man who has a sex change operation is a "woman". . . Last week's confirmation that up to 50 Labour parliamentary candidates in winn...</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 1994 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Depravity among Conservatives, outguessing public radio, the view from third grade, and other matters. ASK MR. STATISTICS</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/05/02/79229/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/05/02/79229/index.htm</guid><description>Dear Statmeister: My PC and I have recently been switching over to Word for Windows, the hugely popular word-processing program sold by computer goliath Microsoft (fiscal 1993 revenues: $3.75 billi...</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 May 1994 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>