Loyals

Blair is facing some stern discontent after he led his party to a gutted win in the British election:

Tony Blair yesterday told Labour MPs they can win a fourth term for "progressive politics", but only if they remain disciplined and united behind the centre-left agenda which had already given them three election wins.

In what some MPs later said had been a franker and angrier private session than usual, with more than 300 MPs and peers present, Mr Blair warned: "If we act like this was a defeat, not a victory, we'll not get a different kind of Labour party but the Tories."

Looks like trouble stirring up over there. Quite a shift in the momentum of political powers following the push for invasion in Iraq and the dwindling hope for a reasonable outcome there. Tough win you've got there, Tony.