Perhaps the market is assuming US sales will quickly return as the domestic economy steadily improves, but that is an assumption we are not willing to concede.

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When Mr Blair became prime minister, a lot of Tories, not least Margaret Thatcher, were willing to concede that for a Labour leader, he was not at all bad.

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