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Alastair Campbell told the crowd: ‘Unite behind Gordon to win’. But can they?

Fraser Nelson says that the departure of Tony Blair and the arrival of Gordon Brown will mark a clear-out of personnel and a marked change in style. The risk is that the new Prime Minister becomes a force for division and the object of derision

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