When Blair resigns next week...

[AstleFire]

Who runs the country? I mean, does he stick around as prime minister until a replacement gets elected, or does he go straight away and we're left with his deputy taking over in the mean time? No-one here in my office knows - all help appreciated tx!

 

[SFG75]

Tony Blair began the final countdown to his departure today by promising a resignation announcement next week and anointing Gordon Brown as his successor.

On the 10th anniversary of the general election that swept him to power, the prime minister told GMTV: "I will make my position clear next week. I will say something definitive then."

The prime minister is expected to make the statement on May 10. Plans are being drawn up to allow his deputy, John Prescott, to announce his own resignation on May 9.

U.K. Guardian

Now if only King George and Darth Cheney would leave office-it would be a better world.

 

[ylris611203]

.............and then we should have a general election.