UK News 14-01-2005 who: Tony Blair what: Says Gordon Brown is most successful Chancellor since the War where: CHATHAM when: Thursday snippet: "This was intended as an olive branch to Mr Brown," says The Independent`s political editor, Andrew Grice, "who is worried that Labour is in danger of squandering the goodwill it enjoyed when it took power after the 1997 election and of failing to create the `new politics` it promised." All week the papers have been speculating on the leaders` dispute over how the forthcoming general election campaign should be run. A new book by Robert Peston, the City Editor of The Sunday Telegraph, alleges that Mr Brown no longer trusts Mr Blair and has told him on more than one occasion: "There is nothing that you could say to me now that I would ever believe." Meanwhile, the chancellor has gone on an African tour where he is finalising Britain`s ten-year plan to help raise health and education standards in Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa and Kenya. [... more]

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