Blair set to go next year, says aide
Afp, London
Prime Minister Tony Blair can "reasonably" be expected to leave office in about a year's time, a key minister loyal to the embattled British leader said yesterday. Environment Secretary David Miliband made the comment amid mounting pressure on Blair to name a date for his resignation, to put an end to increasingly damaging infighting with his ruling Labour Party. "The conventional wisdom is that the prime minister sees himself carrying on for about another 12 months and it seems to me that conventional wisdom is reasonable," Miliband told BBC radio. "I haven't spoken to the prime minister about that so that I am not able to give you this from the horse's mouth, but it seems to me that that conventional wisdom is perfectly reasonable." Blair, who came to power in 1997, has said he will step down before the next general election, due May 2010 at the latest.
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