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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.

But it did. John Prescott was Deputy Prime Minister under Blair. And Michael Heseltine was Deputy Prime Minister in the previous Tory government.

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.