IF GORDON BROWN might soon be looking for a new job, Hazel Blears may have the answer. The Secretary of State’s happy, smiley face was left a bit redder after she unwittingly disclosed a proposal that the Prime Minister stars in an Apprentice style BBC1 programme. The plan, in a briefing note, was spotted by photographers in a similar gaffe to Caroline Flint’s sharing Government worries over the housing market with the world. The producers of the putative programme, working title “Junior PM”, with a view to making Gordon the arbiter in a competition between aspiring young politicians. A post-it note from a Whitehall aide on Hazel’s briefing paper as she left Number 10 on Tuesday shows it is being taken seriously: “I think you intend to raise this in the margins of Cabinet.” A spokesperson for the Communities Secretary confirmed that contacts had been made but said nothing had been agreed yet. According to the producers: “It is a golden opportunity for the PM to…become more popular than Alan Sugar.” If the egomaniac tycoon’s popularity is due to the fact that people love to hate him, surely Gordon is already more than half way there already.