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To: PartyTime who started this subject	2/11/2003 12:54:09 AM
From: Just_Observing	Read Replies (2) of 25898

Voters desert Blair over Iraq By Peter Riddell February 11, 2003 Support for Labour lowest for a decade as women take flight SUPPORT for Labour has fallen to the lowest level for more than a decade because of Tony Blair’s willingness to back military action against Iraq. The first in a new monthly series of polls for The Times conducted by Populus shows that Mr Blair is now being damaged politically, particularly among women, by his tough stand and close alliance with President Bush. The Times/Populus poll, undertaken between last Friday and Sunday, shows how much Mr Blair still has to do to win over voters and how public attitudes are closely linked to his ability to win support for a second United Nations resolution. This further underlines the importance to Mr Blair of this Friday’s report to the Security Council by Hans Blix, the chief weapons inspector. The public believes that President Saddam Hussein is a threat to Britain and has weapons of mass destruction. But they do not think that the case for war has been made. Nearly nine out of ten voters think the UN weapons inspectors should be given more time to establish whether Iraq is hiding weapons of mass destruction, as France, Germany and Russia have urged. Meanwhile, just a third think that Britain and America have so far put forward a convincing case for military action against Iraq. More than half of the public says their view of Mr Blair has changed because of Iraq, a third less favourably. Support for Labour has slipped two points over the past month to 35 per cent. Apart from the fuel protest month of September 2000, the last time Labour support was this low was in 1992. more at timesonline.co.uk

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