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RSS FeedsPatrick Brown´s explosive tell-all lashes out at Progressive Conservative `enemies´
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14 november 2018 23:48:23

 
Patrick Brown´s explosive tell-all lashes out at Progressive Conservative `enemies´
(The Star Travel)
 


Deposed former Progressive Conservative leader Patrick Brown’s explosive new tell-all book takes aim at the “enemies” he blames for ousting him.His memoir, Takedown: The Attempted Political Assassination of Patrick Brown, will be published Friday, but the Star has obtained an advance copy.Brown, elected mayor of Brampton last month, was forced out as Tory leader in January after CTV News broadcast allegations of a sex scandal involving two women. He is now suing CTV, which stands by its reporting, for $8 million.In the 312-page tome, he claims that despite the accusations, Doug Ford promised him “any position I wanted if I threw my organization behind his candidacy” during the March PC leadership.The ex-leader lashes out at key advisers Alykhan Velshi, Dan Robertson, Andrew Boddington, and Nick Bergamini, who resigned en masse the night the CTV story broke, as “rats jumping ship” in his darkest hour.“Not one of these guys was with me, as promised. I was alone,” Brown writes of his dramatic, but ill-advised 81-second news conference at Queen’s Park minutes before the allegations were broadcast.“My team of backstabbers.”Forced out later that evening by his caucus mates, he does not mince words about what happened.“Some of my colleagues had transformed into hyenas.”Prior to being succeeded as Tory chief by Ford — who beat Christine Elliott, Caroline Mulroney, and Tanya Granic Allen at the party’s March 10 leadership convention — Brown toyed briefly with a comeback as leader.Yet even before that bid fizzled, he was already engaged in secret negotiations for his support with Elliott, Mulroney, and Ford.“Caroline was someone I was thinking of backing for leadership, having no interest in running myself at that point,” Brown writes, adding her father, former prime minister Brian Mulroney, assured him “‘you’re going to be on her front bench ...


 
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