Perhaps not a great modernizer, but Tony Blair was a good one, one who took advantage of a wide consensus in 1997 that Britain needed -- and could now afford -- to readjust the Thatcher reforms in a social democratic direction.

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London, England - One of the world's most successful multinational states, and a key ally of the United States, could in a few months time start to unravel: I mean, of course, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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