‘Adulation can turn into contempt’ John Sergeant talks ‘awful warning’ for Boris Johnson
express.co.ukTony Blair and Gordon Brown’s careers.The journalist claimed the series contains an “awful warning” for current Conservative prime minister Boris Johnson, who could have his own “Gordon Brown figure” waiting in the wings to take over.After the death of John Smith in 1994, Blair and his close colleague Gordon Brown (they shared an office at the House of Commons) were both seen as possible candidates for the party leadership.
They agreed not to stand against each other, it is said, as part of a supposed Blair–Brown pact.Brown, who considered himself the senior of the two, understood that Blair would give way to him.Opinion polls soon indicated, however, that the latter appeared to enjoy greater support among voters.Their relationship in power.
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