Brown said it was clear his views were no longer fashionable, "but as the 1930s showed, the economic orthodoxies for which people are feted today will quickly come to be seen as the great misjudgments of history".
The disclosure about Brown, who refused to express any preference during the leadership contest in public, came as David Miliband prepares to bow out of frontline British politics. The shadow foreign secretary is expected to release a statement tomorrowafternoon announcing that he will not contest e
In one of the Blair book's rawest statements, Blair writes that he came to believe that for him to agree a deal to hand over power to Brown was to give "an assurance that should never have been asked or given". It was "not our right. Not wise. Not sensibly politically, let alone democratically". Bla