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Blair launches election manifesto

Tony Blair - Eight years in power
Tony Blair - Eight years in power

The British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has said he will serve a full term if his Labour government is re-elected next month.

However, after eight years in power, Mr Blair says he is fighting his last election.

He was speaking this morning at the launch of his party's general election manifesto.

Mr Blair described the manifesto, which pledges not to raise the basic or top rates of income tax, as ‘quintessentially New Labour’.

The 112-page manifesto includes more than five pages of pledges including a commitment not to extend VAT to food, children's clothes, books, newspapers or public transport fares.