Blair's Personal Rating Drops: Poll

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Blair's Personal Rating Drops: Poll

British Prime Minister Tony Blair's popularity among the electorate is waning, according to the latest ICM poll published by The Guardian newspaper Wednesday.

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British Prime Minister Tony Blair's popularity among the electorate is waning, according to the latest ICM poll published by The Guardian newspaper Wednesday.

But Blair's Labor Party maintained its 12-point lead over the opposition Conservatives in the poll.

Forty-two percent of those interviewed said they are satisfied with the job Blair is doing compared with 50 percent who are not, representing an overall rating of minus eight.

The poll also found that 59 percent of interviewees considered Blair a "presidential" leader, while 57 percent thought him out oftouch.

However, Gordon Brown, the chancellor of the Exchequer and Blair's strongest political rival, is unlikely to reap any immediate benefit, the poll suggested.

Just 28 percent of voters said they were more likely to vote for the ruling Labor Party if Brown replaces Blair as its leader, while 43 percent said they would be less likely to back the party if so.

The fall of Blair's rating came after Clare Short, the former international development secretary, quit the cabinet when claiming that Blair had broken his promise to give the United Nations a central role in postwar Iraq.

ICM interviewed 1,000 adults on May 16-18 and the margin of error was three percentage points.

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