Patrick Wintour
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/ 8 October 2007

Brown’s ‘broken promises’

The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown this week set the stage to announce a November 1 general election next week. A poisonous row has erupted between the two main political parties in the United Kingdom over Brown’s decision to fly to Iraq in the middle of the Opposition Conservative (Tory) Party’s annual conference.

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/ 25 June 2007

Cherie: ‘Sack the chancellor’

Cherie Blair repeatedly urged her husband to sack Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown as she became incensed by his behaviour towards the prime minister, a family friend of the Blairs has disclosed. Barry Cox, who has known the couple for 30 years, said that while the relationship between Blair and his chancellor had been strained since the mid-1990s, the prime minister finally began to believe the worst of his successor during his final year in office.