Jonathan Freedland has a typically smart piece on what Gordon Brown needs to do in 2008 in this morning’s Guardian. Freedland writes,
“We will not vote on him this year, but after only six months in office – three that saw him soar, three that saw him plunge – we will form a settled view of him in 2008. If the Mr Bean tag sticks, he will be finished. He needs, at the very minimum, a few solid months of steady, unruffled, even dull competence: no more Northern Rocks, missing discs or tangled donations. Desperately required is a spell of quiet, so that the serial misfortunes of the autumn come to seem like a bad patch rather than a Brownian pattern.
For this, though, the prime minister needs to do more than cross his fingers. He has to make a new year’s resolution: to submit again to the regime he followed last summer.
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