Summary
IT WAS Enoch Powell who observed that all political careers end in failure. Yet that enduring counsel of futility doesn't begin to capture the very public agony of Gordon Brown. He is assailed on all sides.
Even the Guardian, which couldn't wait to see Brown succeed Blair in 2007, is now withering. "The truth is that there is no vision from him, no plan, no argument for the future and no support. The public see it.See the full content of this document
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Out of touch and out of favour. Will they soon be out of office?
His party sees it. The cabinet must see it, too, although they are not yet bold enough to say so, " the paper pronounced on Wednesday, in an editorial which urged: "It is time to cut him loose."
Interesting metaphor that. Have his limbs stopped twitching? Is the gibbet taut? Or are...See the full content of this document
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