What Bush's win means for Blair

By Andrew Marr
BBC News political editor

As the dust settles, as second reactions form, the American elections look like making life harder for London, not easier.

Party campaigners are already drawing lessons - Bush's success in setting the agenda, the early failures in the Kerry campaign, the lethal effectiveness of the flip-flop attacks made on the Democrat challenger.

But for the rest of us, the more interesting questions are about the extent to which the underlying issues and, of course, the result of the American elections bear on British politics now.

The war on terror and Iraq played well for Bush in a way that Tony Blair cannot quite bank on. The attack of 9/11 shocked and altered America in a unique way. Here, linking the war on terror with Iraq has been more widely questioned - and often ridiculed.
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If Bush* decides on war with Iran/Syria, Labour will get rid of Blair if he tries to back *.