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. From then on, there was really only one question on peoples’ minds, and it was the third – the worst – of the three questions he had mentioned to Ashdown: “When is he going?”
但是，当布莱儿在连续第三次击败保守党后公开宣布他将不会再担任一届首相的时候，他令人费解地选择了加剧他在布朗身上所犯的错误。从此以后，人们的头脑中就只有一个问题，也是他曾经向阿什顿提及的三个问题中的第三个、也是最为糟糕的一个，那就是：“他什么时候走人？”