Recent history suggests Sunday is the prime day for upsets in the round of 32.
More than once, Mr Blair suggests that the role of a modern-day prime minister is like that of a corporate CEO.
Matthew admits, with a slightly sheepish grin, his ambition is to be prime minister one day, but at the moment his hands are full with constituency matters - immigration, policing - and writing Parliamentary questions.
People briefed on the project, which was two years in the making, say it was partly motivated by Amazon's success in offering two-day delivery, through its Amazon Prime, service and same-day delivery, which has been available for four years in some cities.
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"At the end of the day, the Prime Minister of Israel said exactly four years ago to the day that he is for a two-state solution, " emphasised Dror Moreh.
Later in the day, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh convened a meeting of his political allies and ministers.
But it was the speech the prime minister delivered the day after the bomb that he remembers most vividly.
Back in 1978 the centre-right prime minister of the day, Raymond Barre, raised social-security contributions and cut hospital spending.
David Cameron and Labour leader Ed Miliband had clashed over the issue earlier that day in prime minister's questions.
The intervention came just one day after Prime Minster Naoto Kan won an internal election for leadership of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan.
Earlier that day, Prime Minister David Cameron strongly defended the government's health reforms and dismissed suggestions Health Secretary Andrew Lansley's job could be at risk over the issue.
Either way, the financial sector will have guilty knowledge about Shariah-Compliant Finance and be vulnerable to problems that will make sub-prime look like a day at the beach.
That is frequently the pattern, particularly if the prime minister of the day is overseas - as he is now - and is following the row piecemeal and from afar.
Mr Prentice's warning comes on the day that Prime Minister Tony Blair makes a keynote speech to the Fabian Society where he will stress the need to reform public services.
It is not the star's first visit to Downing Street - he was a guest of Tony Blair's on 26 June 2007, Mr Blair's last full day as prime minister.
Doubtless they would seize upon the fact that the prime minister of the day was dating a hairdresser, and that Julia and Tim met in Heading Out, a salon in Melbourne.
The news comes one day after Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali said he would step down if a caretaker government he is forming fails to win approval from Tunisia's National Constituent Assembly.
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Since it came into being in 1901, Australia's constitution has proved hard to change at referendums, and almost impossible when the prime minister of the day does not support the amendment.
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The Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government wants to set in stone the date of the next general election - which has previously been up to the prime minister of the day to decide.
But Lib Dem deputy leader Simon Hughes said that he now believed referrals to the adviser on ministerial interests should be done "independently and not at the discretion of the prime minister of the day".
For what it is worth, I thought that the main lesson from Australia concerned constitutional inertia, and the difficulty in getting a referendum passed when the prime minister of the day is urging a 'no' vote.
The latest spasm of violence came one day after Prime Minister Maliki warned his coalition partners that any moves to bring down the government would unravel the political system and lead to a situation where the majority Shiites decide the shape of the government on their own.
Mr Murphy suggested that ministers had tried to avoid discussing in the Commons compulsory redundancies at the RAF on the same day that Prime Minister David Cameron confirmed that he had instructed the MoD to draw up plans for the possibility of enforcing a no-fly zone over Libya.
"We were able to confirm once again the development made through our annual summit meeting on our strategic and global partnership, " Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said in a joint news conference during the last leg of a four-day visit by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
The following day, Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee sounded a battle cry.
The President will meet with Australian Prime Minister Rudd during the day.
Late last month, followers congregated near Red Fort, the 17th-century bastion in New Delhi where Indian prime ministers deliver their Independence Day addresses each year.
Tuesday's blast occurred a day after Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi survived a bombing targeting his motorcade in an upscale Damascus neighborhood, the government and opposition reported.
The arrest comes one day after Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard called a general election for 14 September, with plans for parliament to be dissolved on 12 August.
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