Blair: 'Venomous' Brown attempted blackmail to shelve Turner reforms

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Gordon Brown has been accused of attempting to blackmail Tony Blair to drop Adair Turner's revolutionary pension reform proposals.

The revelation - described in the final chapter, Endgame, of Blair's autobiography A Journey - centres on the ‘cash for peerages' scandal, with the Labour government accused of awarding peerages in...

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