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Written by Staff Writer
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Jan 04, 2007 at 08:09 AM |
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New Labour will not end when Tony Blair leaves office, Home Secretary John Reid has insisted.
Mr Reid said it was still more in tune with ordinary voters' aspirations than David Cameron's Conservatives.
But the Labour Party faced its toughest year since 1992, when it lost a fourth election in a row, as it went through the process of choosing a new leader.
Mr Reid defended Gordon Brown's record as Chancellor but stopped short of backing him as the next leader.
Mr Brown's "record as a chancellor towers above anything anyone in the Tory Party has ever aspired to or could ever aspire to," Mr Reid said at a party gathering in Lambeth, south London.
And "personal attacks" on the chancellor will rebound on the Tories, he added.
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