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Yeah it didn’t exist under Blair — then Gordon Brown was the de facto #2 but it was never an official designation.

• arunix 5y ago
  But it did. John Prescott was Deputy Prime Minister under Blair. And Michael Heseltine was Deputy Prime Minister in the previous Tory government.
  • muglug 5y ago
    Wow, mine was just an amazingly brain-dead post, but it also reinforces the idea that the deputy PM isn’t the PM-in-waiting.