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Downing Street media chief Alastair Campbell is to step down, it has been announced.
Tony Blair's director of communications and strategy said his family had paid a heavy price for the "real and intense" pressures of his job and it was "time to move on and do other things".
No successor has been announced, and a date for Mr Campbell's departure has not been set, though he said he would leave Downing Street - along with partner Fiona Millar, who works for Cherie Blair - in "a few weeks".
He said his resignation was not related to the Hutton inquiry into the death of government weapons expert Dr David Kelly, saying he had agreed in April with Mr Blair that he would leave his post this year.
Tony Blair's director of communications and strategy said his family had paid a heavy price for the "real and intense" pressures of his job and it was "time to move on and do other things".
No successor has been announced, and a date for Mr Campbell's departure has not been set, though he said he would leave Downing Street - along with partner Fiona Millar, who works for Cherie Blair - in "a few weeks".
He said his resignation was not related to the Hutton inquiry into the death of government weapons expert Dr David Kelly, saying he had agreed in April with Mr Blair that he would leave his post this year.
