Blair confirms plan to step down as leader

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LONDON (AFP) - British Prime Minister Blair confirmed that he would step down as leader of the Labour

Party after a possible third term in office, in an unusual step at the launch

of his party's election manifesto.

The main opposition

Conservatives and smaller Liberal Democrats jumped on the acknowledgement as a

sign that people had lost their confidence in Blair due to the war in Iraq

and a string of pledges they said he had broken.

" I have said that

this is my last election. At the election following there will be a different

leader, " Blair told an audience of reporters at a London conference hall Wednesday

after unveiling his party's manifesto, which emphasises the country's economic gains under

his leadership.

Flanked by six other

ministers, including his most likely successor, Chancellor of the Exchequer

Gordon Brown, Blair insisted, however, that he would serve a full third term in

government if his party won a record third successive victory in the May 5

polls.

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