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Blair ‘tried’ to hush up hacking scandal (13)

Tony Blair urged Gordon Brown to persuade the Labour MP who led the campaign to expose News of the World phone-hacking to back off, friends of Mr Brown said last night. Well-placed sources said Mr Blair, who has close links … Continue reading

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A political feud that cost our soldiers dear (6)

The hostility between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown meant that the military was tasked with commitments that were not matched by sufficient resources. The resentments and recrimination that defined the relationship between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, as chronicled in … Continue reading

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It will take a long time to unravel Brown's mess

With the corpse of New Labour’s government still warm on the mortician’s slab, an inquest into the death of its salesmen has already begun. David Miliband, the bookies’ favourite to take over as leader, says he will tour the country … Continue reading

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"Ding, Dong — The warlock is ALMOST gone" (10)

Gordon Brown has dramatically changed the succession battle by laying down his own job in what is a final, desperate move to prevent a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition. The chances of the Brown manoeuvre succeeding are still long. He did not … Continue reading

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The toxin in new Labour (7)

As his nail-bitten fingers turned the pages of his speech in Downing Street on Friday morning, and he walked with unusually stiff self-consciousness back into No 10, the shield visibly dropped. Gordon Brown’s fundamental vulnerability could no longer be concealed. … Continue reading

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Disaster looms for Brown (6)

Labour is braced for its most disastrous election showing since 1918 as the Cabinet prepares to tell Gordon Brown to quit next week. A Daily Mail poll reveals Labour support has crashed to 24 per cent following the Prime Minister’s … Continue reading

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Gordon Brown's dithering has betrayed our soldiers (1)

Throughout Gordon Brown’s troubled tenure as Prime Minister, one constant feature has been his antipathy towards our Armed Forces. But as he enters what, by rights, should be his final week in office, the sulphurous whiff of a particularly galling … Continue reading

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Brown is confronted by ANOTHER voter (6)

The spectre of immigration returned to haunt Gordon Brown today as he was confronted by yet another voter who demanded the Prime Minister explain what he was planning to do about it. Exactly 24 hours after he was caught branding … Continue reading

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Gordon's "Day From Hell" (3)

A humiliated Gordon Brown was today forced to drive to a voter’s house to apologise, hours after he was caught out calling her a ‘bigoted woman’. The Prime Minister had to tear up his schedule to visit Gillian Duffy, 65, … Continue reading

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