Ex-Labour leader urges Blair to quit

"The prime minister ought not to announce he's going at the party conference - he ought to go at the party conference," (Lord) Roy Hattersley, deputy leader from 1983 to 1992, said in an interview to be aired on a Sunday television programme.

"Then he should say that the time has come to pass the torch on to somebody else and thank the party for what they've done," he added.