Gets worse for Blair
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A Labour rebel was last night elected chairman of the parliamentary party - ousting a close aide of Tony Blair.
Former Foreign Office minister Tony Lloyd, who has rebelled on Iraq, tuition fees and foundation hospitals, defeated Ann Clwyd in a vote of Labour MPs.
Mrs Clwyd, the Prime Minister's special envoy to Iraq and MP for Cynon Valley, was axed after just a year in the post after being branded a 'government patsy'.
... Senior Labour backbencher Dr Ian Gibson said: 'There will be a lot more room for dissent. This is an amazing victory and it illustrates just how much unhappiness there is in the parliamentary party at Downing Street control. 'Ann Clwyd was seen as being far too close to the whips and others. People were booed and hissed if they dared to speak out. We've now got a chair who will stop all that.' Link
A Labour rebel was last night elected chairman of the parliamentary party - ousting a close aide of Tony Blair.
Former Foreign Office minister Tony Lloyd, who has rebelled on Iraq, tuition fees and foundation hospitals, defeated Ann Clwyd in a vote of Labour MPs.
Mrs Clwyd, the Prime Minister's special envoy to Iraq and MP for Cynon Valley, was axed after just a year in the post after being branded a 'government patsy'.
... Senior Labour backbencher Dr Ian Gibson said: 'There will be a lot more room for dissent. This is an amazing victory and it illustrates just how much unhappiness there is in the parliamentary party at Downing Street control. 'Ann Clwyd was seen as being far too close to the whips and others. People were booed and hissed if they dared to speak out. We've now got a chair who will stop all that.' Link
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