Or will he distance himself from Mr Prescott's call for a reassertion of Old Labour values?
He demanded to know why the Europe's UNIFIL forces are doing nothing to prevent Hizbullah's persecution of Christians and reassertion of control over south Lebanon.
Tony Blair would certainly not accept such an idea indeed his conference speech this week contained a strong reassertion of his belief in a United Kingdom.
But Mr Trimble's reassertion of his authority went only so far.
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In Lebanon, Livni was the architect of the cease-fire with Hizbullah that paved the way for Hizbullah's rearmament, reassertion of control over south Lebanon, and effective takeover of the Lebanese government.
If the Putin-Medvedev regime gets away unscathed with this violent reassertion of authority over what it euphemistically calls the "Near Abroad, " all of its once-enslaved neighbors will once again be at risk of Moscow's predations.
Compared to the 81 who voted for that EU referendum, it would represent a reassertion of government control and the remaining rebels could be dismissed as a rump of usual suspects, isolated head-bangers and perpetual malcontents.
First, a Jordanian reassertion of control over Judea and Samaria and an Egyptian reassertion of control over Gaza would likely increase the chances that the moderate regimes in both countries would be weakened and perhaps overthrown.
Even more devastatingly, the withdrawal -- which set the course for the 2005 withdrawal from Gaza and the Olmert government's plan to unilaterally withdraw from Judea and Samaria -- discredited the one strategy that could have brought Israel a strategic victory in 2006: reassertion of Israeli control over the border area in south Lebanon.
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