UK News 18-03-2005 who: Tony Blair what: Urges Party leaders not to make abortion an election issue where: Downing Street, LONDON when: Tuesday snippet: "Tony Blair`s official spokesman called for a moratorium on the abortion issue after Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O`Connor, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Britain, backed Michael Howard, the Tory leader, in calling for the legal upper time limit to be reduced from 24 to 20 weeks," explains The Independent. And it`s not just Catholics who are turning against the PM. In Monday`s Independent, home affairs correspondent Nigel Morris reported on an ICM poll which found only 28% of women think Mr Blair is honest while 29% want him to resign immediately. [... more]

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