The New Nation - Internet Edition

AFP, London

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is taking advice from his predecessor Tony Blair on how to win the next general election despite pressuring him out of office, the wife of the former prime minister said on Saturday.

In interviews with two newspapers-the Times and the Sun-Cherie Blair laid bare the tempestuous relationship between the two men who worked side by side in Downing Street for a decade.

She described the crisis of confidence Blair suffered in April 2004 at the height of unpopularity over his decision to take Britain to war with Iraq and accused Brown of "rattling the keys above his head."