British Prime Minister Tony Blair will announce today that he will quit within a year, following one of the most serious political crises of his premiership.

Six members of the British government today resigned their posts in protest at Tony Blair’s refusal to name a date for his resignation, as Blair warned that they were putting Labour’s electoral prospects at risk.

THE pressure on British Prime Minister Tony Blair to name his date for quitting Downing Street was growing last night, as backbenchers lined up to attack his silence.