Blair rich project

A YEAR ago he was the most powerful cop in the land, masterminding Britain's battle against gang crime and terrorism.

Now sacked Met chief Sir Ian Blair is spending his time locked away in a GARDEN SHED, plotting how to become a LORD.

The secret mission has become his "one main focus in life".

The former Scotland Yard boss - fired by Tory London Mayor Boris Johnson - is said to be terrified he'll never be made a peer if Labour loses the next election, as expected. So he has set up his command HQ in the potting shed at his Oxford home.

A source close to Sir Ian said: "He has been spending an inordinate amount of time in what has been nicknamed 'the plotting shed'. He has shut himself away to mastermind his one main focus in life - a peerage. But he knows he's running out of time."

Gaffe-prone Sir Ian was sacked last year, with a £400,000 pay-off and £168,000-a-year pension.

His memoirs, Policing Controversy, are out tomorrow. When newspaper serialisation rights were sold, he is understood to have insisted headlines included the phrase "fighting back". But police chiefs have branded him "disloyal" and a "hypocrite".

The source added: "He conveniently left out all his gaffes."

Sir Ian's wife Felicty last night denied he was plotting for a peerage.

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