Lord Ashdown is interviewed by Andrew Neil on BBC News’ Straight Talk this weekend. And Coffee House has been forwarded a few advance quotes. I think this, from Ashdown, is minor classic:
“I have made some mistakes in my life but viewed out from a year ago, it does not seem to me that my decision to decline Mr Brown’s kind invitation to join his Government was one of them.”
And he continues:
“Can [Brown] survive? Well, Margaret Thatcher was more unpopular than him but does he, you know – she had the personality, the opportunity and the luck. He’s an unlucky Prime Minister, he hasn’t got a great personality and I can’t see what the opportunity is.”
So yet another figure ringing the political death knell for our Prime Minister…
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