Labour high command will be very satisfied with Brown’s performance on Marr this
morning. There was far less of the tetchiness that we usually see from Brown in interviews and by being invited to talk about the ash cloud and the government’s response to it at the
beginning, Brown was able to assume some of the aura of his office as Prime Minister.
The interview saw the debut of Brown’s latest rewriting of history. Apparently he has always been for bringing in the liberals (exact quote to follow when the BBC release the transcript) and a ‘progressive consensus’. This will come as a shock to anyone who has read Paddy Ashdown’s diaries or talked to those involved in the discussions between the two parties in the mid to late nineties.
Brown carried on with his debate tactic of hugging the Lib Deems close, declaring that ‘Nick Clegg is right’ when talking about constitutional reform.
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