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| Blair survives no-confidence vote | Blair survives no-confidence vote |
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| Commissioner Sir Ian Blair has won a vote of confidence by members of the Metropolitan Police Authority. | |
| The UK's most senior officer was facing censure after his force was found guilty of health and safety failures following the shooting of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes | |
| Fifteen members of the MPA supported Sir Ian, seven voted against him and there was one abstention. | |
| Before the vote Sir Ian said he would resign if the MPA found against him. | |
| Speaking about recent newspaper coverage, he said: "I am a man of honour." | |
| Sir Ian's supporters told the meeting that the commissioner should be allowed to draw a line under the Stockwell shooting and concentrate on making London safer. | |
| Sir Ian had sat in virtual silence during the four-hour meeting as members of the police authority argued whether he should keep his job. | |
| One critic said Sir Ian should follow the example of the chairman of HM Revenue and Customs and resign. | |
| But the MPA chairman, Len Duvall, said the watchdog body risked bringing itself into disrepute by the public and vitriolic attacks on Sir Ian. | |
| He said they were entering "virtually unknown territory" as they met to make their most important decision since the authority was created seven years ago. | |
| If the authority had failed to back Sir Ian, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith would have come under pressure to sack him. |