{"id":39024,"date":"2025-12-30T00:15:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T00:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/browns-allies-could-wreck-labours-2005-election-hopes-mandelson-warned\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T00:15:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T00:15:39","slug":"browns-allies-could-wreck-labours-2005-election-hopes-mandelson-warned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/browns-allies-could-wreck-labours-2005-election-hopes-mandelson-warned\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown\u2019s allies could wreck Labour\u2019s 2005 election hopes, Mandelson warned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Blair was told that tensions with his then chancellor would need to be carefully managed, files reveal<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/dec\/30\/tony-blair-advisers-wi-speech-womens-institute\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Too complacent\u2019: how Blair\u2019s advisers misjudged his disastrous WI speech<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Peter Mandelson warned Tony Blair not to allow Gordon Brown\u2019s supporters to wreck Labour\u2019s 2005 general election campaign from within, according to newly released government files.<\/p>\n<p>Relations between Blair and his chancellor were strained in the autumn of 2004 as Labour prepared to try for a third successive election victory. Brown and his allies believed the prime minister had reneged on a promise to step down towards the end of Labour\u2019s second term to allow him to take over.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/dec\/30\/gordon-brown-allies-could-wreck-labour-2005-election-peter-mandelson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Blair was told that tensions with his then chancellor would need to be carefully managed, files reveal \u2018Too complacent\u2019: how Blair\u2019s advisers misjudged his disastrous WI speech Peter Mandelson warned Tony Blair not to allow Gordon Brown\u2019s supporters to wreck Labour\u2019s 2005 general election campaign from within, according to newly released government files. Relations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fast-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 13:49:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}