Report: Blair Planned To Fire Replacement Brown Just Two Years Ago

Independent:

An astonishing confidential document - disclosed by The Independent on Sunday three days before Gordon Brown takes over as Prime Minister - proves that Tony Blair planned to sack Mr Brown as Chancellor of the Exchequer immediately after the last election.

The Cabinet Office document, drawn up by a team of Downing Street advisers including Lord Birt, the former director-general of the BBC, shows that far from the "unswerving support" the Prime Minister pledged to Mr Brown this week, he planned to scupper his career and break up the Treasury just two years ago.

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