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The Northern Echo is making the news after conducting a poll in Tony Blair’sown constituency on whether the Prime Minister should call a GeneralElection while the foot and mouth crisis is at its height.

More than half of voters in Mr Blair’s Sedgefield constituency believe heshould not call a General Election for May 3, according to a surveypublished in yesterday’s Northern Echo.

Some 50.7 per cent of those quizzed said Mr Blair would be wrong to hold an election on what is believed to be his preferred date because of the currentfoot-and-mouth outbreak, compared to just 35.7 per cent who thought he should go ahead and 13.6 per cent who were undecided.

The results appear under the headline Don’t Do It, Prime Minister.

The Echo interviewed 1,117 voters in the County Durham constituency, where

Mr Blair will defend a massive 25,143 majority in the upcoming election.

The constituency has so far had no foot-and-mouth cases, but the nearestinfection is less than half a mile outside its borders. The suspectedoriginal source of the outbreak was in the North-East, at Heddon-on-the-Wallin Northumberland.

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