By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 2:34 PM on 4th July 2011 Tony Blair was warned by MI6 that his feud with Gordon Brown was becoming so problematic that France and Germany were plotting to exploit their differences, it has been claimed. The latest volumes of Alastair Campbell’s diaries reveal that intelligence memos were passed to Blair informing him that Germany believed he and Brown 'were on different tracks' and that they, as well as the French, planned to take advantage of this. At an EU summit in Nice in December 2000, Campbell noted: 'The French and Germans, according to the spooks, were exploiting the fact that GB was seen as a rival to TB, to try to divide them further.'
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