Has British PM Tony Blair lost so much credibility (and hair) over Iraq that he’s leaving his Labour Party no better off than it was 12 years ago?

After 11 years as Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher was unceremoniously ousted, not by the British electorate, but by a cabal of “wobbly” backbenchers in her own Conservative Party. Now, after 12 years in office, Tony Blair has been ousted - in similar fashion and with no less humiliation - by a coven of Machiavellian princes within his Labour Party.

Really, the way British political parties rebel against their leaders bears all of the traits of a banana-republic coup d'état….

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