AHC: Gordon Brown Never Becomes Prime Minister

Your challenge, should you accept it, is to have Gordon Brown never become PM with a plausible PoD after 2007. No deaths or ASBs should be involved. Go ahead!
 
David Miliband challenges him when James Purnell steps down. In the following leadership battle, it comes out what a sociopath Gordon Brown is.

I worked in politics in the UK at the time, and it was actually well known in the Westminster bubble that the guy was unstable. The solo electoral contest becoming a coronation meant it never fully came out in the papers.
 
David Miliband challenges him when James Purnell steps down. In the following leadership battle, it comes out what a sociopath Gordon Brown is.

I worked in politics in the UK at the time, and it was actually well known in the Westminster bubble that the guy was unstable. The solo electoral contest becoming a coronation meant it never fully came out in the papers.

Didn't Purnell stand down in 2009 though, after Brown was PM?

However, if you can have Brown somehow lose in 2007, that would be good.
 
Didn't Purnell stand down in 2009 though, after Brown was PM?

However, if you can have Brown somehow lose in 2007, that would be good.

Yes, you're right. My brain wasn't switched on properly when reading the post. But you get the same effect by Miliband challenging him originally.
 
Yes, you're right. My brain wasn't switched on properly when reading the post. But you get the same effect by Miliband challenging him originally.

Yes, but given how easily Brown won IOTL, it might need an extra PoD to get Miliband to win.
 
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