Prime Minister Tony Blair was hoping to use his party’s annual conference to switch attention from Iraq to his campaign for a third term in office, but the unrelenting bloodshed in Iraq and the kidnapping of a British engineer are eclipsing the event. When Blair addresses the Labour Party conference on Tuesday, he will trumpet new policies ahead of elections, widely expected in May 2005. The policies are expected to include more help for hardworking families and a radical policy agenda that would extend consumer choice in education and health care.Full Story