"While Brown would want to inherit a healthy Commons majority when he did eventually take over, he would not want Blair to get the credit, he wrote. A big issue will be you personally. The media will want to bring pressure on you to a new level of intensity. Next door [Brown] will want a good majority but will not want you to do well."
"Mandelson also stressed the need to woo what passes for the left' media after the bitterness over Britain's involvement in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Alastair Campbell, who had stepped down as No 10 communications chief amid controversy over the government's infamous dossier on weapons of mass destruction, should be kept in the background, he advised. You must be conscious of the need to create reasons for them to come back on side. Avoid things that will antagonise them (therefore"
Peter Mandelson warned Tony Blair that tensions with Gordon Brown and his allies could undermine Labour's 2005 general election campaign from within. Relations between Blair and Brown were strained in autumn 2004 as Brown and his supporters believed Blair had reneged on a promise to step down to allow Brown to succeed. Mandelson urged careful management of Brown's supporters, including agreeing where Brown's people could be included without giving them veto power or scope for insider demolition. He warned that Brown would want a healthy Commons majority but would not want Blair to receive credit. Mandelson advised courting left-leaning media and keeping Alastair Campbell in the background.
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