Andrew Grice: The Week In Politics
What Blair and Brown learnt in opposition they have soon forgotten in government
Published: 09 September 2006
The biggest secret in British politics is coming out. Tony Blair, it seems, is not sure that Gordon Brown is the right man to take over from him.
It is one conclusion we can draw at the end of a momentous week in which the strained "TB-GB" relationship finally snapped. "Tony doesn't regard Gordon as his best successor," one Blairite minister told me yesterday. "He sees him as his only successor, which is different."
Article Length: 900 words (approx.)
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