Labor Party Faces Vexing Challenges ; Hit by Polls, Splintered by Iraq

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The ruling Labor Party opened its annual meeting yesterday with elections looming next year, the opposition gaining favor in polls and Prime Minister Tony Blair eager to head off a rebuke over Iraq from his party's left wing.

Mr. Blair's advisers think they can avoid a resolution that calls for the government to withdraw British troops from Iraq. In return, they may have to accept a resolution acknowledging the government took the country to war based on faulty intelligence.

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Labor Party Faces Vexing Challenges ; Hit by Polls, Splintered by Iraq

The internal dispute over Iraq - often spilling out into acrimony and resignations - has cost both the Labor Party and Mr. Blair in opi...

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