In return for the keys to Number 10, Tony Blair was forced to cede almost complete control over the domestic agenda to his Chancellor.In Brown's Britain, award-winningjournalist Robert Peston explains for thefirst time the REAL nature of therelationship between Blair and Brown.

When Gordon Brown reluctantly stepped aside in the race for the Labour leadership in 1994, he entered into a fragile, turbulent but hugely successful politica! marriage. In return for the keys to Number 10, Tony Blair was forced to cede almost complete control over the domestic agenda to his Chancellor.In Brown's Britain, award-winningjournalist Robert Peston explains for thefirst time the REAL nature of therelationship between Blair and Brown.With the ease of a born storyteller, he gives the first truly authoritative account of the extraordinary deal they did back in 1994,and reveals the amazing details of the events of the past year, when Blair offered to stand down in favour of Brown and then summarily withdrew the offer.This book, for which Peston was granted unprecedented access to the Chancellor and his friends and colleagues, draws back the veil on the brooding man who has been Britain's longest serving and arguably most powerful Chancellor in more than 100 years. Filled withe:telling quotes and unexpected insights; it takes you right to the heart of the secret power games that go on behind the gates of Downing Street, and looks ahead at what Brown would do if he were to become Pgime Minister in nameas well as deed.

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE: An inherited mission

CHAPTER TWO: Losing the leadership, winning power

CHAPTER THREE: Capturing the Treasury

CHAPTER FOUR: How the Bank of England made a credible socialist of Gordon Brown

CHAPTER FIVE: How Brown won the confidence of the financial markets so that he could be a real socialist

CHAPTER Six: "Clear and unambiguous" - how Brown took control of the historic decision on whether to join the euro

CHAPTER SEVEN: "The man in the white coat" - how Brown kept the UK out of the euro

CHAPTER EIGHT: Progressive universalism - redistribution in the age of globalisation

CHAPTER NINE: Brown's Britain

CHAPTER TEN: End of the deal