I’m standing outside Committee Room 14 where Brown is having this supposed make or break meeting. As soon as he swanned in, there was a cheer and the banging of desks. Had he walked into a Tory meeting by mistake? No, this was his henchmen doing their version of crowd control. And there is plenty of crowd – David Lammy is standing in front of me being told there is no room. Ronnie Campbell tried to heave his hefty carcass in the door like he was squeezing into one of those Tokyo underground tubes, but no dice. “Doesn’t he want my support?” he exclaimed as he left. Another round of desk-banging and applause at 6.14pm.
What a farce. About the entire parliamentary press corps is standing outside – as Brown’s henchmen know too well. So this meeting may as well have cameras in it, for all the candour going on inside.
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