health whip benjamin denmark referred the state ' s defeat to the governing national congress and to the greens as a , " tragic failure " and blamed the economic situations such as rising groceries and fuel costs as circumstances that hinders the communist candidate ' s appeal with the public . conservative party leader dave livingstone criticized bradshaw ' s opinion by saying , p . brown was to blame for the economic distressed . taylor cited the prime minister ' s ten years of handling the economic as minister prior to ascending it since tony paul stepped down last year .
Blair was Prime Minister before Brown.