The obvious conclusion for any new prime minister would be that Mr Blair's mistake was to ally himself too closely to the Americans in defiance of much of British public opinion and of the other main European powers.

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David Coon, a survey statistician at Census, said the bureau wants to keep its security plans closely guarded for fear of giving away too much information to potential hackers.

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