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Blair harboured hopes of top EU job amid Brown turmoil – Campbell

Written By Unknown on Thursday, September 29, 2016 | 2:09 PM

Ex-PM considered leaving No 10 in 2004 over tension with Brown and sounded out EU politicians about European commission job, spin doctor reveals

Tony Blair was sounding out the possibility of becoming president of the European commission three years before he stood down as prime minister, his former spin doctor Alastair Campbell has claimed.

In the latest instalment of his diaries, Campbell also says that Blair decided to walk away from No 10 in 2004 because of the tension with Gordon Brown. Blair eventually stood down in 2007.

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