Tony Blair claims Gordon Brown lost the last election because he abandoned New Labour and lost the "crucial" support of business, in memoirs that give an implicit endorsement of David Miliband as the party's future leader.Mr Blair says he foretold that Mr Brown's premiership would end in "disaster" if he abandoned the party's centrist principles, and the book is a searing account of his fraught relationship with his "maddening" former chancellor.The former premier claims it was his idea to make the Bank of England independent in 1997 and says he now regrets allowing Mr Brown to claim the credit. "I allowed him to the make the statement," he says.
Mr Blair says he foretold that Mr Brown's premiership would end in "disaster" if he abandoned the party's centrist principles, and the book is a searing account of his fraught relationship with his "maddening" former chancellor.
The former premier claims it was his idea to make the Bank of England independent in 1997 and says he now regrets allowing Mr Brown to claim the credit. "I allowed him to the make the statement," he says.
... the loss of the colonies ...
How quaint. In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.
