`Outstanding'
Blair's personal pollster, Lord Philip Gould, rejected the suggestion that Blair was an electoral liability, as key May elections loomed in the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and English municipal councils.
"The fact that he's been questioned by police a couple of times doesn't turn an outstanding prime minister into an electoral liability," said Gould -- Labour's adviser and strategist in the 1997, 2001 and 2005 general elections.
"We have to take the long view, the public will take the long view and they do believe he is a remarkable prime minister," he told BBC radio.
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