Cherie accuses Brown of 'trying to force Blair out'

Cherie Blair accused Gordon Brown today of “rattling the keys” of Downing Street over Tony Blair’s head in an attempt to force him out of office.

In the first extract from her autobiography serialised in The Times, Mrs Blair disclosed that her husband would have stood down as British prime minister before the 2005 general election if Mr Brown had been prepared to back his public service reforms.