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| | New Statesman: English north-east: the big idea that Blair ignored (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Stockton South's MP, Dari Taylor, frustrated that new Labour's revolution in the region seemed to be on permanent tea break, thought she could persuade her friend Sally (now Baroness) Morgan, then Blair's political secretary at 10 Downing Street, to launch the idea at a pre-election press conference. |
 | | Taylor, who has the nimble-footedness you would expect of a leading light in the All-Party Parliamentary Tap-Dancing Team, is still not answering my calls. |
 | | Just before north-east voters blew their rasp-berry and left a disheartened Prescott's ears popping, I had a message from her office: "She still thinks the idea is an excellent one, and is certainly something which could be taken up by the NE regional assembly." |
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