In a press conference on May 12th, Tony Blair acknowledged there was too little of it. Five days later, the queen announced that the government would try to foster it. Respect, and its gradual disappearance from British life, is something that Labour MPS heard a lot about while canvassing voters in the general election campaign. John Prescott, the deputy prime minister, found out about the decline of modern society more directly, thanks to some "fellas with hoods on" who, he claimed, had tried to menace him in a motorway cafe.
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