By Simon Walters and Jason Lewis PUBLISHED: 17:17 EST, 20 April 2013 | UPDATED: 17:17 EST, 20 April 2013 Tony Blair’s former chief of staff flew 3,000 miles to an oil-rich former Soviet state run by a brutal dictator to tell them how they could learn from Britain’s long history of democracy. Jonathan Powell started out by explaining how Kazakhstan would be a vastly better country if it could have its own Rolls-Royce-class Whitehall civil service system, free of corruption. But he ended up reopening an old domestic feud by launching a personal attack on a fellow former British mandarin who compared Mr Blair’s New Labour government to Hitler’s Third Reich.
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Jonathan Powell gave speech in oil rich former Soviet state Kazakhstan
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But he launched personal attack on Sir Richard Packer
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He previously compared Blair’s government to Hitler’s Third Reich
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