Blair se však nevysvětlitelně rozhodl prohloubit chybu, již s Brownem udělal, když poté, co torye potřetí za sebou porazil, veřejně prohlásil, že už znovu kandidovat nebude.
But Blair inexplicably chose to compound the mistake he had made with Brown, by announcing publicly, after having defeated the Tories for the third straight time, that he would not stand again.