Make-your-mind-up time

It's make-your-mind-up time for Tony Blair - should he go for it or delay his desired May general election? BBC News Online's regular panel of strategists share their expert advice.

Joy Johnson: Tony Blair must concentrate on the long term and stick to the plan - which means going for a 3 May election, says Labour's former director of communications.

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Jo Phillips: Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy has stopped playing hard to get with Tony Blair and is now like one of your best mates having an affair with a married man who really does believe he'll leave his wife this time, says Paddy Ashdown's former head of media.

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Sheila Gunn: As Tony Blair decides whether to go for May or June, John Major's former press secretary sets out her party's case against the numbers making up Labour's 1997 landslide.