That means no review before 2003-4 at the earliest. Robin Cook, the most senior pro-PR politician close to Mr Blair, was happy as were backbench campaigners for a PR system for the Commons like Stephen Twigg, the MP who beat Michael Portillo thanks to tactical voting in 1997. The prospect for some sort of review after 2003 are very dim. It's all about keeping the Labour party in line rather than moving the argument forward. Many Labour MPs and activists with experience of PR have been dismayed by coalition politics with the Liberal Democrats in Scotland and, less formally, in Wales.
Purists call the hybrid even worse than the status quo.