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Summary Former UK PM Tony Blair is rejecting British government's claim riots were caused by moral decline.
He said talk of broken Britain will tarnish the nations reputation.Prime Minister David Cameron has blamed Britains slow-motion moral collapse for the riots.Blair wrote in a newspaper that the violence was not caused by social rot, but by alienated, disaffected youth, who are found in most developed nations.He said claims of Britains moral decline will depress ourselves unnecessarily, trash our own reputation abroad, and worst of all, miss the chance to deal with the problem in the only way that will work.Blair left office in 2007 and rarely comments on domestic politics.
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