I should have been PM not Blair: Brown

Gordon Brown has admitted for the first time that he should have become the British Prime Minister,and not Tony Blair,when New Labour came to power in 1994.

Gordon Brown has admitted for the first time that he should have become the British Prime Minister,and not Tony Blair,when New Labour came to power in 1994,a remark confirming the simmering feud between the two during Labour first 10 years in office.

Brown said he had the experience and skills to lead the country after former leader John Smiths death.

For years the two top Labour leaders denied that they were at loggerheads. Lifting the lid on the tensions surrounding his relationship with Blair,Brown also admitted that it was “incredibly difficult” and they had fights

while in office.

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In an interview to ITVs Piers Morgans Life Stories,Brown also admitted that they did concoct a deal,once Blair became Labour leader,for Brown to succeed him as prime minister.

The interview with the former newspaper editor Morgan is set to be broadcast at the weekend.

Though Blair was junior to Brown in 1994,Brown stood aside after Smiths death.

“I believed I could do the job,I believed that Id got the experience and built up the experience to do it,” he was quoted as saying by the Daily Telegraph newspaper.

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“I dont deny…. that there were fights about different issues but its always the case,” he said in the interview.

According to the report in the British daily,Brown talks about his student life,alcohol,his wife Sarah and their children. Brown also speaks movingly about the death of his daughter and his sons illness,it said.