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Isn't it extraordinary that the Prime Minister of our country can't even urge his Party to back his own position. Weak! Weak! Weak!
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Prime Ministers Questions, 30 January 1997.
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Speech to Labour Party conference, 1 October 1996.

 

Tony Blair

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