MPs press Blair for 'payback' from Bush

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By Paul Waugh Deputy Political Editor, Evening Standard
8 November 2004

Tony Blair was today facing demands from Labour MPs to stand up to George Bush when he visits Washington this week.

The Prime Minister flies out on Thursday to become the first foreign leader to meet the president since the US election.

Tactics and strategy in Iraq will top the list of issues but Mr Blair will also push for greater American action on the wider Middle East, climate change and African poverty.

Labour backbenchers were set, in a private meeting as well as following the Prime
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Payback???? With that Parliamentary pre-war Sweetener ("There is NO ENRON scandal in the UK" - Blair to Commons, Spring 2002).....what more could they have wanted?

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1. I bet Bush won't even meet Blair at the airport

He didn't last time. What a boor.