Blair's five-year plan to prevent Brown setting Labour agenda

From: The Scotsman | Date: March 15, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

TONY Blair has ordered key government departments to produce a five-year plan in an effort to ensure that Gordon Brown, the Chancellor, does not use his spending review to set the agenda for Labour's third term.

In an extraordinary power struggle with the Treasury, the Prime Minister has asked four of the main spending departments to lay out a "strategy plan" until 2009 - setting out clearly how they will make good his reform agenda.

This is intended to trump the Treasury's three-year spending plan, due this summer, where Mr Brown will ask each department about its plans up until April 2007 ...

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