Blair to fly back from Egyptian trip today

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The Independent
By Marie Woolf, Chief Political Correspondent
03 January 2005


Tony Blair is to fly home from his holiday in Egypt today following mounting criticism about his decision to remain in a Red Sea resort after the tsunami disaster.

The Prime Minister's decision came as politicians attacked him for not flying back from Sharm el-Sheikh last week to direct Britain's response to the catastrophe.

Yesterday the Tory leader Michael Howard said on BBC1: "I think if I had been in his position, I would have come back. Other leaders have. But everybody has got to make their own decisions about this and do these things in their own way."

Mr Howard also wrote to John Prescott asking about the Government's response to the disaster, remarking that the Deputy Prime Minister was in charge "in Mr Blair's absence".

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