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Regicide is in the air for the Tories

20 January 2024

9:00 AM

20 January 2024

9:00 AM

An election year, a tired government accused of being in power too long, and a bickering party. This was the backdrop to the coup against Gordon Brown in 2010 when Geoff Hoon – the defence secretary under Tony Blair – and his fellow ex-minister Patricia Hewitt called for a secret ballot.

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