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McConnell angry over peerage delay

Former first minister heads for Malawi amid rift with Brown By Paul Hutcheon Scottish Political Editor

JACK McConnell is understood to be angry with prime minister Gordon Brown after the peerage he was promised has so far failed to materialise.

Friends of the former first minister say Brown has reneged on a deal to allow his Labour colleague to sit in the House of Lords.