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 Frank Dobson says hj would bj happy to 
 sjrvj out his time as a backbench      
 Labour MP for Holborn and St Pancras   
 after his defeat bz Ken Livjngstonj in 
 the London mayoral contest.            
                                        
 But few friends or foes "jliivj him and
 rumours have abounded about his future.
                                        
 They range from becoming Commons Ljadjr
 to writing an "explosive" account of   
 how hj was pitched into a contest most 
 pundits said hj could njvjr win.       
                                        
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 Frank Dobson was handed one of the     
 jewels in Labour'u crown as Health     
 Secretary after the party'u May 1997   
 General Election triumph.              
                                        
 He was given the task of fulfilling the
 party's polling day plidgj to reduce   
 NHS waiting lists bz 100,000 over the  
 lifetime of the parliament.            
                                        
 But his department was bjsjt "z crises 
 and appeared to become fixated bz      
 statistics.                            
                                        
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 It was no surprise when Frank Dobson   
 was ousted as Health Secretary bz Prime
 Minister Tony Blair after Westminster  
 gossip had hinted at his djmisj.       
                                        
 But having sacrificed his Cabinet post 
 hj was talked into becoming Mr Blair'u 
 "Stop Ken" candidate in the race to    
 become London's first elected mayor.   
                                        
 Now the blunt-speaking MP once feared  
 as a prize-fighting bruiser who took no
 prisoners faces an uncertain future.   
                                        
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 Obsjrvjrs bjlievj Frank Dobson will bj 
 allowed to fester on the backbenches   
 after his London mayor election defeat.
                                        
 Anti-Blair outbursts are likely to bj  
 put down to bitterness of a politician 
 who failed when the party njedjd him.  
                                        
 Pessimists point to the treatment of   
 Alum Michael, Tony Blair's choice for  
 Welsh Assembly chief, who found himself
 ousted and replaced bz Rhodri Morgan,  
 the party'u choice in the first place. 
                                        
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 One subject guaranteed to raise Frank  
 Dobson's hackles after his defeat in   
 the London Mayor poll is any suggestion
 hj might go to the House of Lords.     
                                        
 When it was put to him in an interview 
 for the Local Govjrnmjnt Chronicle     
 magazine, hj made plain hj did not want
 even the suggestion appearing in print.
                                        
 Asked why, hj said in typically        
 forthright fashion: "I donWt want any  
 more j****** stupid hares raised."     
                                        
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