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...formidable bonhomie wasn't up to the job. Few in Westminster believe any truce will hold beyond the election. Last week, Blair was forced to deny a rumor that he plans to move Brown out of the Treasury if Labour wins big. This scenario envisions a newly emboldened PM fixing his rival by offering him the combined post of Foreign Secretary and International Development Secretary. Brown would be unlikely to accept any move, says a source close to him, unless it gives him the keys...
...time in the Treasury's corridors. Gladstone, of course, went on to be as great a Prime Minister as he was a Chancellor, and Brown dreams of emulating him. Yet for all his many virtues, there are things about the Chancellor that would stop him from being a successful PM. He bears grudges; collegiality is not his strong suit; though less so now that he is married with a child, he sometimes seems to carry around an existential angst, as if a dirty, gray, west-of-Scotland sky was permanently moored above his unkempt locks. He does not make people...
...restaurant. The two potential successors allegedly agree that Brown will stand aside in exchange for Blair's promise to step down halfway through a second term. The next day, Brown bows out of the leadership race. May 1997 Labour wins a landslide victory in the general election. Blair becomes PM. Fall 2003 After a second election victory in June 2001, Blair's popularity plummets midterm due to the war in Iraq and allegations that the government "sexed up" intelligence on WMD. In a speech seen by many as an outline of his leadership agenda, Brown urges the Labour Party...
...with the rest of the country." Derzhko believes the east's succession threats are a political ploy to wrench concessions from the new government. Those threats are a powerful weapon for the Kremlin, though for now Russian President Vladimir Putin is talking sweet. On Friday, he told visiting Spanish PM Jos? Luis Rodr?guez Zapatero that he "could only be pleased" if Ukraine were to be welcomed into the E.U. "Ukraine's turned out to be Putin's worst failure," says one official in Moscow. If Putin fails to install Yanukovych and thus "loses" Ukraine, the official says, his domestic position...
...party and offers critics another chance to cast grave doubts on his legacy. Since becoming PM for the second time in 2001, he has pushed through several laws aimed at easing his legal troubles, including a 2003 immunity measure for top government officials that temporarily suspended the Milan case. That law was overturned, and the trial resumed in April. The latest verdicts may not change many minds in Italy, but perhaps they can start to change the subject. - By Jeff Israely Saddam's Supplier? THE NETHERLANDS Police arrested businessman Frans van Anraat on charges of war crimes and involvement...