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Last Updated: Friday, 4 June, 2004, 05:06 GMT 06:06 UK
Blair on Breakfast
Speculation about Blair's future will not go away

Tony Blair faces his worst personal ratings in the polls since he came to office seven years ago.

In his own words it "gets more difficult as you go on as Prime Minister" - but he's still insisting he's "absolutely up for it".

As part of our election coverage, we've been speaking to the party leaders.

Tony Blair joined us live in the studio, on Friday's Breakfast.

We asked him about the tough time he admits he has ahead - with elections next week and the handover of power in Iraq at the end of the month.

So, what did the Prime Minister tell us?

Fuel prices need to be kept under review, a lot depends on the world fuel prices. We have to take the CIA Chief resignation at face value, it has nothing to do with 9/11 or Iraq. Iraq has been difficult, we know 2 things, that Saddam had WMD, and that we have yet to find them.

I had to balance whether we leave Saddam in power or take him out, we saw 300,000 mass graves in Iraq. If we look at the 7 years of Labour: we have a strong economy, unemployment is no longer a headline issue, schools are improving.

But there is still work to be done. When we talk about my agenda:international vs. domestic, my diary is more taken up with domestic issues, such as crime and disorder. Regarding the smoking ban,it really is only at discussion stage, it is something which will probably have to be considered locally.

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