Blair postpones calling elections

Due to the saddening and tragic death of the Pope, Tony Blair has decided to postpone calling an election for 24 hours. This seems an appropriate thing to do as countries like Poland and Italy have postponed like everything - theatres, football matches, cultural events.
BBC News reports -

Tony Blair has decided to delay naming the date for the general election for 24 hours because of the Pope's death.
The prime minister had been expected to ask the Queen on Monday to dissolve Parliament ready for a 5 May poll.

But BBC political editor Andrew Marr said Mr Blair has told aides he no longer thinks the timing of the news would be appropriate.

Instead, Downing Street says Mr Blair will attend vespers at Westminster Cathedral in memory of John Paul II.

He will also lead tributes to former Labour premier James Callaghan in Parliament.

Mr Blair is now expected to announce the election campaign on Tuesday morning.

He is also likely to attend the Pope's funeral in Rome towards the end of the week.


Andrew Marr said Labour's plans had been thrown into "mild disarray".

In a statement, Downing Street said: "The prime minister will be attending vespers at Westminster Cathedral tomorrow afternoon at 4.30pm.

"In response to speculation we can confirm that he will not be going to Buckingham Palace tomorrow."

In Italy TODAYS's regional elections have not been postponed. Instead the Italian National Olympic Commitee decided to suspend every sport event, even the broadcast of the Bahren F1 Grand Prix. I don't know if this makes any sense...
Anyway, I doubt this is the right place for this conversation....

This has been discussed in the Pope thread. Why do you keep starting new threads every 5 minutes?

couch_potato, I'm beginning to think you have no idea what TV Forum is about. This is a place to discuss TV PRESENTATION, not politics, religion, sports or anything else. These subjects do crop up from time to time, but they must have a TV spin on them. Posting a thread about Blair postponing the election is not directly relevant to TV pres, unless you link it to TV in some way.

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