Gordon Browns desperate official pleads for help in escaping the appalling No 10

By Richard Eden Published: 11:00PM GMT twenty-seven February 2010

Clare Latimer, the Downing Street caterer Photo: CHRISTINE BOYD

Latimer tells Mandrake that she was buttonholed by one of Gordon Brown"s pessimistic officials at a No 10 accepting for the British Stammering Association.

"When I was leaving, a part of of staff rushed up to me and grabbed me aside," she says. "They told me the ambience at No 10 was positively abominable and they were unfortunate for an election.

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"It has stranded in my mind: this chairman really longed for me to go and discuss it somebody. It was patently a cry for help; they longed for to get word out. I haven"t left around observant "what"s it similar to to work here?" It is only shocking."

Clare"s Kitchen, Latimer"s successful company, has supposing catering for supervision functions for twenty-five years. "Gordon Brown is a man who wasn"t inaugurated and he was as well fearful to call an choosing since he probably wouldn"t win," she adds.

"When I was in Downing Street years ago, there were tears at the finish of a term. I was in No 12; it was such a smashing ambience and we all desired it so much."

In 1993, Latimer strike the headlines when she was secretly rumoured to have had an event with John Major, the afterwards budding minister. The span successfully took authorised movement opposite New Statesman & Society, that had printed suggestions of an event initial done open in the humorous repository Scallywag. The defame allotment served as a notice to alternative reporters questioning Major"s in isolation life.

They referred to that he had had an extra-marital event and pragmatic that it had been with Latimer. In fact, it had been with Edwina Currie prior to he entered No 10.