Brown Fights the Prophets of Doom ; Premier's Fury As Darling Dents His Hopes of Fightback

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A SENIOR Cabinet minister was yesterday forced to deny that a damaging rift had opened up between Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling over the Chancellor's gloomy economic forecast.

Relations between No 10 and the Treasury are said to be extremely tense following Mr Darling's dire prediction that conditions are the worst for 60 years.

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Brown Fights the Prophets of Doom ; Premier's Fury As Darling Dents His Hopes of Fightback

But Justice Secretary Jack Straw insisted that the entire Cabinet was completely in step and insisted there would be no leadership challenge to the Prime Minister.

Mr Brown's advisers are furious that the doom-laden Darling intervention risks denting his hopes ...

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