London - The war on terrorism would not divert the British government from the "bread and butter issues" of reforming public services and the economy, the Prime Minister, Mr Tony Blair, said yesterday, writes Rachel Donnelly.
Pitching his "mission" to improve schools, the health service and the economy as the toughest challenge of the new parliament, Mr Blair told a group of public sector workers at the British Library public policy would "determine our strengths and successes as a nation as much as any international crisis." Mr Keith Sonnet, deputy general secretary of Britain's largest union, Unison, welcomed the commitment to public services but said private sector involvement in the public sector "won't deliver improvements".
