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Blair faces cabinet revolt

AFP, London
British Prime Minister Tony Blair will suffer a number of government resignations if he joins a US-led war against Iraq without United Nations backing, Britain's Sunday newspapers said.
Five members of Blair's Labour government, including three aides to cabinet ministers, told The Sunday Telegraph they would resign if he went to war without the UN Security Council first passing a second resolution authorising military action.
The Sunday Times said as many as 10 cabinet minister could resign, adding that up to half of Labour's members of parliament (MPs) are set to back a rebel motion attacking Blair's push to war.
"If we don't have a second resolution I would resign," Andy Reed, an aide to Environment Secretary Margaret Beckett, told The Sunday Telegraph.
Anne Campbell, aide to Trade Secretary Patricia Hewitt, also promised to step down, as did Ken
Purchase, aide to Robin Cook, leader of the House of Commons.
"I have taken the view that I would find it very difficult to support the government unless there is a proper UN resolution. If it came to war without that I would have to quit," Campbell told the Telegraph.
Purchase told The Mail on Sunday: "If the war goes ahead in the face of a UN veto I could not remain a member of the government and I believe others will do the same."
Britain, Spain and the United States are sponsoring a draft UN resolution that sets a March 17 deadline for Iraq to disarm itself of any banned weapons or face war.
It follows Resolution 1441, approved by the UN Security Council in November, that said Iraq must disarm of any weapons of mass destruction it might possess or face unspecified "serious consequences".
The second resolution looks unlikely to pass, however, with three of the five veto-wielding council members -- France, Russia and
China -- opposing it.
The Sunday Times said Blair would face a rebellion by up to 200 Labour MPs if he bypassed the UN.
Last month, the prime minister suffered his biggest ruling party revolt since becoming Britain's leader six years ago, when in a show of anti-war dissent, 121 Labour MPs backed a rebel motion declaring the case for military action, after 12 years of Iraq defying UN demands to disarm, was "as yet unproven".
The motion itself was soundly defeated by a 393-199 parliamentary vote, thanks in good part to solidarity within Blair's cabinet and support from the opposition Conservatives.
But the fact that 121 out of 412 Labour MPs were among the 199 who voted for the motion was a sign of how deeply the party is divided on the crisis.
Meanwhile, The Mail on Sunday said 40,000 paid-up members of the Labour Party, one tenth of its total, have already quit the party over Blair's handling of the Iraq crisis.