London ? Britain will have to “put up with me for a bit longer,” Prime Minister Tony Blair said Friday, a day after police revealed that they questioned him a second time in an investigation into whether political honors such as knighthoods were traded for cash.

The Labour leader last year became the first serving prime minister in British history to be questioned in a criminal investigation – and there is growing concern in his party about the damaging effect it is having on his government. But Blair said he would not let the inquiry drive him from office.

“I think it would be particularly wrong … before the inquiry has even run its course and come to any conclusions,” Blair told British Broadcasting Corp. radio. “So you will have to put up with me for a bit longer.”