From The Hindu India
By Hasan Suroor

The momentum in the Labour Party to get rid of Prime Minister Tony Blair before the crucial elections in Scotland and Wales in May gathered pace at the weekend amid reports that a delegation of senior party figures may meet him and tell him to go.

Among those being reportedly considered for the unpleasant task of telling Mr. Blair that his time was up were Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott; Leader of the House Jack Straw; and former Labour leader Neil Kinnock.

The campaign to push out Mr. Blair intensified a day after Mr. Blair told the BBC that he intended to “get on with the job” despite growing calls for him to step down in view of the “corrosive” effect the cash-for-peerages row was having on the party and the Government.

Commenting on the police investigations into the peerages scandal over which Mr. Blair has been questioned twice, the party chairperson Hazel Blears said: “Inevitably, when you have this kind of thing going on for months and months, it does have a corrosive effect.”Senior Cabinet Minister Harriet Harman said it was undermining public trust in the party.

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