Blair tells Cabinet he will quit

Chao cac ban ! moi cac ban doc ban tin nhe !

Tony Blair is travelling to his Sedgefield constituency where he will make public his plans to stand down as Labour leader and prime minister.
Mr Blair has already briefed the Cabinet on when he will quit, with his likely successor Gordon Brown reportedly paying tribute to him.
Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain said it had been a "cordial, comradely" meeting with "quite a lot of laughter".
Mr Blair will stay on for seven weeks until a new Labour leader is chosen.
A Cabinet source told the BBC "Gordon Brown made a short and very moving tribute to Tony Blair's leadership, not just of Labour and the United Kingdom but also of the world".
Mr Hain, who is a candidate for Labour's deputy leadership, said Mr Brown would now "take up Tony Blair's mantle in the next period of our government".
Mr Blair is expected to make a speech on his retirement plans at 1145 BST.
Succession
His election agent and close friend John Burton said he expected Mr Blair to continue as Sedgefield's MP until the next general election, unless he was offered a major international job.
He's going of his own choice. He's doing it at a time which he thinks is good for the country, is good for the government
Peter Mandelson
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Mr Blair's official spokesman insists he will remain "focused" on being prime minister until Labour has chosen his successor - a process expected to last seven weeks.
He said Mr Blair still has lots of work to do on domestic issues and had a number of international commitments in the run-up to this summer's G8 and EU summits.
But with a new prime minister expected to be in place by the beginning of July, attention at Westminster has already shifted to his succession.
Mr Brown is unlikely to face a Cabinet-level challenge for the leadership as all of the likely contenders have ruled themselves out.
But he could still face a challenge from one of two left wing backbenchers - John McDonnell and Michael Meacher. The pair are meeting later to see if one of them can muster enough support to get on to the ballot paper.
'Paralysis'
Candidates need the signatures of 45 Labour MPs to enter a contest.
Six deputy leadership hopefuls will also be battling for nominations to enter the race to replace John Prescott, who is due to stand down with Mr Blair.
Conservative leader David Cameron has said the country faces seven weeks of "paralysis" until Labour chooses a new leader, accusing Mr Blair of running a government of the "living dead".

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The Liberal Democrats have, meanwhile, tabled a Parliamentary motion urging the Queen to dissolve parliament and call a general election.
But European Union Trade Commissioner and close Blair ally, Peter Mandelson, denied that Mr Blair's last weeks in office would be as a lame duck leader.
"'He's going of his own choice. He's doing it at a time which he thinks is good for the country, is good for the government."
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