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Byline: MARTIN WALKER
PERIGUEUX, France, July 2 (UPI) -- The good news for Britain's new Prime Minister Gordon Brown was that the first opinion poll after he succeeded Tony Blair showed him leading his party to a triumphant re-election, 4 percent ahead of the Conservatives for the first time in over a year.
The bad news was that this political honeymoon with the voters, which was never going to last, was rudely interrupted by the discovery of car bombs in central London and an attack on Glasgow airport that seemed to herald a new wave of terror attacks.
It was the roughest of baptisms of fire for Jacqui Smith, the new home secretary in charge of police and security matters, whose talents had appeared overstretched as education minister. But she is loyal to Brown, and at age 44 young in…