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Tony Blair

(Angus Reid Global Scan) - The outcome of last month's general election left diverse feelings in Britain, according to a poll by Harris Interactive Europe. 31 per cent of respondents are satisfied with the outcome, while 43 per cent disagree.

British voters renewed the House of Commons on May 5. The governing Labour party secured 356 seats, followed by the Conservatives with 197 and the Liberal Democrats with 62. Prime minister Tony Blair acknowledged the result, saying, "It seems clear that the British people wanted the return of a Labour government but with a reduced majority." In the 2001 election, Labour elected 413 parliamentarians.

Last October, Blair announced that he would retire at the end of his third term. Current chancellor of the exchequer Gordon Brown has been mentioned as a possible replacement for Blair.

Current Tory leader Michael Howard has announced his intention to step down in the fall. Shadow home secretary David Davis and shadow foreign secretary Liam Fox have been mentioned as possible successors.

In their electoral platform, the Liberal Democrats contemplated reforms to the electoral code that would end the first-past-the-post system. Lib-Dem leader Charles Kennedy declared last month, "The case for (proportional representation) has never looked so strong."

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