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By Hasan Suroor
LONDON, FEB. 17. The British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, got his first taste of public anger in the run-up to the coming general election when a woman confronted him during a TV programme on Wednesday and accused him of talking "rubbish'' as he claimed that schools had improved under his Government. The host of the special question-and-answer programme on Channel Five tried to calm her down as she advanced towards Mr. Blair with a photograph of her 10-year-old autistic son whose educational prospects, she said, were threatened by his Government's policy to phase out schools for children with special needs. As the studio crew struggled to get Maria Hutchings back to her seat, an embarrassed Mr. Blair promised to speak to her after the show. After meeting the Prime Minister, Ms. Hutchings told newspapers that he looked "mortified'' and "shocked''. A former Labour party member, she said she told Mr. Blair that ordinary people had been forgotten while he was busy fighting the war in Iraq and "looking out of the country.''
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