LONDON, Feb 15: British Prime Minister Tony Blair won a key vote on Wednesday over plans to toughen anti-terrorism laws, a second parliamentary victory in a week that political analysts say will help reassert his authority.
Blair has lost three votes since last November, partly because of revolts within his own Labour party, and a further setback could have hastened calls for him to give way to his likely successor Finance Minister Gordon Brown.
However despite predictions of a knife-edge result, the government passed its plan to make ‘glorification’ of terrorism a criminal offence by a comfortable 315 to 277.—Reuters
