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A Question of When; Tony Blair prepares to go for his third term. After that, does he step aside?
Byline: Stryker McGuire (With Emily Flynn and Peter Snowdon)
Nine words you will never hear at 10 Downing Street: "I hope to go on and on and on." On a political high in 1987, Margaret Thatcher made the mistake of uttering them, and three years later she was gone. In the halcyon days of his own premiership, in 1999, Tony Blair made a point of saying, "I have never said that I'm going to serve three terms. I have never said I want to be like Mrs. Thatcher and go on and on and on."
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