CONTRARY to expectations, Tony Blair has backed the giant dome Millennium Exhibition at Greenwich - an £838million project that was in danger of being abandoned.
But, for all his provisos about it being a lasting legacy, improved content and so forth, the Prime Minister has taken might gamble on it being a success.
For with just two-and-a-half years to go to turn it into a reality, time is short; the budget could inflate.
And rather than the world's focus being on the Greenwich meridian and the exhibition as the new millennium dawns, its attention could be drawn to a ghastly and expensive mess - leaving egg on the face of Britain and Mr Blair.
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