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1.30pm PlayPolitical: John Edwards: We the People
ELECTION RESULTS
"Voters have delivered a painful parting blow to Tony Blair as Labour lost council seats and faced a dramatic battle to hold on to power in Scotland. Early results showed that while Labour was doing better than it feared in the north of England, the Conservatives were making gains in the south and the Liberal Democrats taking a hit." - Telegraph
"The scale of the rescue mission facing Gordon Brown as he prepares to take over the Labour leadership became clear last night as the party lost a swath of seats in the English council elections on a night that saw sharply varying results across the country." - Guardian
"Voters gave Tony Blair a bruising farewell and Gordon Brown a worrying inheritance early today as Labour suffered losses in elections in England, Scotland and Wales. The Prime Minister, who will announce next week his timetable for stepping down after a decade in power, will leave the Chancellor a party in its weakest local government position since the 1970s." - Times
"Labour has suffered heavy losses in the Scottish parliament, Welsh assembly and English local elections, but appeared on Friday to have avoided the predicted meltdown in its last electoral test under Tony Blair’s leadership." - FT
"There was relief in Labour's ranks that the party looked likely to avoid the "meltdown" that some of its MPs had feared. Labour ministers said the results were better than they had expected and provided no evidence of a major breakthrough by David Cameron's rebranded Conservative Party." - Independent
WHAT WILL TONY DO NEXT?
"Tony Blair is to become a roving ambassador in Africa and the Middle East when he leaves Dowing Street in an attempt to rebuild his tarnished reputation." - Telegraph
"Tony Blair may quit Parliament before the next general election for a lucrative career outside politics, it emerged yesterday. The Prime Minister, who will announce next week that he is standing down as Labour leader and Prime Minister, may say later in the year that he is resigning as an MP." - Times
"Tony Blair will seek an “executive role” after he stands down as prime minister this summer, which could include a new post of president of the European Union...He has not ruled out the possibility of a heavyweight job representing his former fellow heads of government as the president of the European Council in two years’ time, assuming such a position is created under an overhaul of the EU treaty later this year." - FT
"WHY TEBBIT IS RIGHT NOT TO FORGIVE THE EX-TERRORIST"
"On Sunday Radio 4 will “bring together some of those whose lives were changed for ever by the Brighton bomb in 1984”. One whose life was changed for ever, Lord Tebbit – whose wife was paralysed in the blast – has condemned the programme and refuses to meet the bomber Patrick Magee." - Oliver Kamm in the Times
"A Tory strategy to make more use of open source software in the public sector is likely to tackle the culture of secrecy in government procurement...the plans are also likely to encourage the adoption of open standards and promote an indigenous open source industry." - The Register
CONSERVATIVES' YOUNGEST COUNCILLOR - JUST 18!
"A teenager who fought an election campaign while sitting his A-levels has become Britain’s youngest councillor." - Times
CONSERVATIVE CLASS OF 97 CELEBRATE
"All but a handful of the 28 surviving members of the 1997 intake of Tory MPs gathered for a black-tie dinner at the Commons organised by Worthing East and Shoreham MP Tim Loughton..."We all got a specially designed hoodie in Conservative blue and green colours with the House of Commons logo on it. It has 'Class of 1997... Things Can Only Get Better' written across the front of it and the signatures of all 28 of us." - Telegraph Spy
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