Tony Blair to announce plans to leave office

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TRIMDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Tony Blair announces when he will step down on Thursday, 10 years after winning power in what was hailed as a new dawn for Britain that has since been darkened by the Iraq war.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070510/ts_nm/britain_blair_dc_11

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I'm sorry to see Blair go, but I don't see this effecting Brit foreign policy much. Brown is considered to be generally pro-US, so other than some initial rhetoric about asserting itself, there's probably not going to be much substantive change, especially not on the working level.