The bags under Gordon Brown’s eyes may look heavier than ever these days, but Mandrake hears that he is unlikely to avail of the lavish hospitality of Sir Cliff Richard. “Cliff has no plans to offer him his home in Barbados,” the pop singer’s manager, Bill Latham, tells me. “It is not something that is going to happen.” Sir Cliff told me in 2006 that, in a gesture of Christian kindness, he had put in a call to Tony and Cherie Blair in the aftermath of the Iraq war to offer them the run of his holiday villa. “I had watched Tony wither when that war got started. I just felt sorry for him and so I said to Cherie, 'Look, I don’t do this sort of thing normally, but I just know my place on Barbados isn’t going to be full of people this August and if you want to use it, then go ahead’. It was just something I wanted to do for him as...
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