Just left the Andrew Marr Show, where I was on the sofa discussing the day’s big story before the full broadcast of Andrew’s pre-recorded interview with Gordon, in which the PM called off the snap election.
As I argue in today’s Sunday Telegraph, it is only a fortnight since Brown was on the very same show, insisting coquettishly that he would not be providing a ‘running commentary’ on his election planning. Now it looks as though it is he himself who is ‘running’ – from the people’s judgment which, his pollsters told him, could not be assumed to be positive.
So often impressive since he entered Number Ten, Gordon looked evasive and irritable today. He said he needed time to set out his ‘vision’: what, then, was the purpose of his conference speech with its parables, promises and ‘moral compass’? He dismissed as ‘froth’ all the speculation of the past few weeks – which is rich, given that most of it was whipped up by his own acolytes.
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