LONDON - Prime Minister Tony Blair sidestepped electoral catastrophe Friday but voters handed the outgoing leader a string of bruising municipal defeats - and his governing Labour was locked in a battle for Scotland with a nationalist party that vowed to push for independence.
Early results from Thursday's vote suggested Blair - who has said he will formally announce next week that he will resign as prime minister, likely by July - averted a predicted routing, but had lost hundreds of seats on local councils.
A tight contest in Scotland, where Labour has won every election for the last 50 years, saw the Scottish National Party - which has pledged a referendum on …
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