The Prime Minister endured a polite roasting across the spectrum of issues, from Iraq and public services to hospital cleanliness and help for rape victims. Caroline Hudson-Jones, from Southend-on-Sea, told him she had taken her own disinfectant to hospital because she was so shocked at the “filthy” condition of the wards. Just 28 per cent thought he was honest and 29 per cent wanted him to resign immediately.With women making up more than half the electorate, the parties never lose sight of their importance. In the general election expected in May, they are desperate in particular to secure the support of younger women, notoriously volatile in their voting patterns.For that reason all three party leaders have given interviews to the latest edition of Cosmopolitan magazine, and Mr Blair consented to an all-female television interrogation. I need a reason to vote for you; I want you to give me that reason.”Ms Moss, 35, added: “The decisions made around Iraq in particular have sat very uncomfortably with me and I can’t reconcile myself to those decisions you made and to voting for you in the next election.”An ICM poll has found that Mr Blair, once a crucial asset for female voters, was now an electoral turn-off for women.

But the other Ms Moss, who works for a gas company in south London, had a more chilling message for Mr Blair, because it is echoed by millions of other British women.
She told him on LWT’s Jonathan Dimbleby programme: “After the 1997 election, I felt a huge sense of euphoria you heralded a new breed of politician and gave me a great deal of hope for the future I even felt proud to be British Today you’ve lost my respect. When Kate Moss warned Tony Blair that he was about to lose her vote, the Prime Minister was not being snubbed by the world-famous supermodel. I don’t think other prime ministers would have said that either; that rather alarms me.”. “On two occasions now at Prime Minister’s Questions he has explicitly gone out of his way to say that if there was a terrorist outrage no one would be talking about civil liberties. That’s quite a remarkable statement for any British prime minister of any political persuasion to say.”I don’t think Margaret Thatcher would have said that at the height of the IRA bombing campaign in London, never mind in Northern Ireland itself.

But Lord Tebbit, a former Tory chairman whose wife was crippled in the 1984 IRA Brighton bombing, said he was sickened by Labour attempts to portray the Conservatives as soft on terror.”I feel a sensation of nausea that a man so detached from reality and truth could be the Prime Minister of this country,” he said. Mr Blair was “making no move” on republican terrorism despite knowing the identities of the Omagh bombers and Robert McCartney’s killers, he said.The Liberal Democrat leader, Charles Kennedy, attacked Mr Blair for failing to protect civil liberties. The danger comes from two or three disaffected men doing something more like a car bomb … We are more at risk of dying from bird flu than we are from being blown up by any terrorist.”The control order measures finally passed into law on Friday night after a 30-hour parliamentary stand-off between Tony Blair and Tory peers.Cabinet ministersaccused Michael Howard, the Tory leader, of risking national security for party advantage during the protracted wrangle. I have got a bit of respect for MI6 and the James Bond types, but I have to say all my experience of MI5, the snoopers, is that they are so often wrong.”The current terror threat was “a bit less than the threat we had during the IRA”, Mr Livingstone said. “There is always the danger that we will fail and someone will get through,” he continued. “We do not believe there is the chance of another 11 September …