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Hutton: I said Brown would be a ‘disaster’

Labour MP John Hutton has admitted that he was the Cabinet minister responsible for saying that Gordon Brown would be a “disaster” as Prime Minister.

Mr Hutton had previously denied long-running rumours that he was the high-placed Labour source who said in 2006 that Mr Brown would be a “f****** disaster” in the role.