Gordon Brown is at war with his Chancellor, says David Cameron

Aislinn Laing Published: 1:26PM GMT twenty-four February 2010

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Gordon Brown was this sunrise forced to repudiate that he had been systematic aides to short opposite Alistair Darling, insisting that he had "huge respect" for the Chancellor.

The Prime Minister pronounced he had zero to do with the tract to disprove his longtime crony given he foresee the worse mercantile downturn for 60 years.

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But Conservative personality David Cameron taunted him over the claim at Prime Minister"s Questions, revelation MPs that Mr Brown"s afterwards close confidant Damian McBride had in actuality been "spreading poison" about the Chancellor to journalists.

Challenging the PM to repeat on the building of the Commons the counterclaim he gave on the GMTV lounge this morning, Mr Cameron said: "Right now, 6 weeks prior to an choosing with a jot down bill necessity at the finish of a prolonged recession, I wish to ask because the Prime Minister and Chancellor are at fight with each other."

Relations in between Mr Darling and Mr Brown have been spread out given the Chancellor released his trainer with an final possibly to let him stay in his pursuit or renounce rather than be changed laterally in the Cabinet reshuffle last year.

Mr Darling finished the ultimate revelations in a straightforward talk in that he reliable that No 10 worked opposite him, with aides lecture reporters that he had spoiled the economy with his apocalyptic assertions and should be sacked.

"Nobody likes the sort of lecture that goes on," Mr Darling said, "the forces of ruin were unleashed".

Asked if he believed that allies of Mr Brown together with Charlie Whelan, a comparison kinship official, and Damian McBride, afterwards his domestic orator had briefed opposite him, Mr Darling said: "Of march you have people observant things."

But vocalization on GMTV this morning, Mr Brown denied that he systematic any assault.

"I would never indoctrinate anybody to do anything alternative than await my Chancellor," he said.

"Alistair has been a crony of cave for twenty years, we have worked together, the family groups know each other. We have worked together all this time and we have outrageous mutual apply oneself for each other. I think he would endorse that."

The Prime Minister additionally spoke out for the initial time about the claims that staff in his bureau were bullied.

He certified his actions could be noticed as "demanding" and that of a "hard taskmaster" who infrequently got indignant and impatient, but pronounced the bureau of the Prime Minister could not be hold by a "shrinking violet".

"I get indignant infrequently doesn"t everybody? I get impatient, I am driven to do the things," he said. "When I came in to the job, I pronounced look, I will try my pinnacle and I plea people, I ask them to do the most appropriate they can.

"Actually, we work in an open plan office, we are a sort of family in Downing Street and similar to each family there are issues that come from time to time, but we have a got a good operative sourroundings and we get things done."

"In my pursuit you have got to get things done, you have got to pull people you have got to plea people. You don"t compromise a universe retrogression by being a timorous violet."

The bullying claims were sparked by a book by Observer publisher Andrew Rawnsley that purported that Sir Gus ODonnell, the Cabinet Secretary, had secretly warned Mr Brown about his diagnosis of staff.

The claim was followed by another, by the owner of the National Bullying Helpline that her bureau had perceived complaints from staff operative inside No 10.