Tony Blair ‘nearly quit as PM to pursue EU presidency’ – former communications chief

‘Tony Blair considered leaving Downing Street three years before he stood down as Britain’s prime minister and harbored hopes of becoming president of the European Commission, one of his closest advisers has revealed.
Alastair Campbell, who left his job as communications director in 2003, claims Blair wanted to walk away from the top job in 2004 because he was “ground down” by his then chancellor, Gordon Brown.
In the latest installment of his diaries, serialized in the New European, Campbell says Blair wanted him to return to help secure the EU top job.’
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