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Inside the '97 campaign

Politics Unpacked

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The Labour Party for Bull Dog

After the election, there were dozens of people who suddenly found they'd been elected. We started to field calls and we had candidates on the phone saying i didn't expect to geteleeer, or how am I going to tell my wife? After an election that changed our lives, perhaps things can only get better by getting rid of this pole. Margaret mcner sat in a car with her husband Tony Blair five years before he became prime minister. She said: 'I think itis deafinitely true, that the expectations were colossally out of line with anything that any gover could possibly do' And she has one more thing to say about him -  "He was not

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