Gordon Brown at brook over bullying claims at No 10

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The Prime Ministers fitness to oversee was called in to subject last night after allegations that No 10 staff had called an anti-bullying charity.

Christine Pratt, the arch senior manager of the National Bullying Helpline, done the claims hours after reports that Sir Gus ODonnell, the Cabinet Secretary, had approached Gordon Brown about his diagnosis of personnel.

Mrs Pratt told a radio interviewer that staff operative for Mr Brown had done 3 of 4 calls and downloaded recommendation from the charitys website.

I have privately taken a call from staff in the Prime Ministers office, staff who hold they are operative in a bullying enlightenment and that it has caused them a little stress, she said. We would have hoped Gordon Brown would lead by example. If an employer receives complaints, they should investigate.

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Mrs Pratts preference to go open was stirred by Lord Mandelsons explain progressing in the day that Mr Brown had never bullied his staff. The Business Secretary was responding to extracts of a new book by the publisher Andrew Rawnsley, that catalogues incidents indicating the Prime Ministers volcanic temper.

End of the Party alleges that Sir Gus had already intervened informally to ease down fearful avocation clerks, badly-treated phone operators and alternative painful staff by revelation them: Dont take it personally.

It additionally sum one incident where the Prime Minister is pronounced to have leapt out and grabbed the lapel of an confidant who was delivering headlines that the Home Office had lost the interpretation of twenty million people.

Downing Street attempted to fool around down the allegations, pursuit them antagonistic and suggesting that Mr Browns occasional outbursts were since of his passion for his job. Labours greeting indignant Mrs Pratt, who took to the airwaves.

There are people who work closely with the Prime Minister who are endangered about the enlightenment of the bureau they are operative in, she told The Times last night.

She insisted that callers were genuine employees of No 10, notwithstanding claims by a little Labour sources that she could be a Tory stooge. She pronounced she had been indignant that any employer in this incident would go in to rejection rather than see in to the allegations.

Lord Mandelson claimed that he had been on the accepting finish of an indignant Brown and I took my disinfectant similar to a man. But he insisted that the Prime Minister did not brag his staff. In his book, Mr Rawnsley alleges that Mr Brown rounded off shoved in reserve his long-serving confidant Stewart Wood after he organised a lunchtime accepting for EU ambassadors.

He is additionally indicted of screaming at the maestro American speechwriter Bob Shrum after The Times indicted Mr Brown of borrowing phrases used by the consultants alternative clients. Mr Shrum denied that he was reprimanded by Mr Brown.

The Conservatives pronounced that the disaster of Sir Gus to meddle strictly referred to a cover at the heart of supervision over the Prime Ministers behaviour. William Hague, the Shadow Foreign Secretary, referred to that Mr Brown was not cut out for the top office.

I dont think he has ever shown that he can lead a happy group and a successful group and maybe, if theres any law in these allegations, thats piece of the reason why. I think that is one of the reasons he has struggled, he told Sky Newss Sunday Live.

Ann Widdecombe, enthusiast of the National Bullying Helpline, pronounced that Sir Gus should right away see in to the Prime Ministers behaviour. If there is no grave censure to a tribunal, I think the Prime Minister competence be blissful to have this make a difference privileged up by the head of the Civil Service, she said.

She criticised Mrs Pratt for going public, however, observant that it was inapt for her to exhibit the sources of her callers.

A Downing Street orator pronounced that it had never been contacted by the helpline. Mrs Pratt pronounced last night the gift never contacts employers but the accede of employees.