Tonight’s Dispatches on Gordon Brown, which Pete blogged about on Sunday, has already generated a bunch of buzz. Reading the transcript, these two quotes jumped out at me as neither are meant to wound and are all the more telling for that:
Andrew Rawnsley: Would you have done that pre budget report differently?
Alistair Darling: Well errm if I knew now what I knew then well errm off course there would be something’s I would do different, I actually think the inheritance tax changes that I made do have some merit.
Will Labour win the next election?
Peter Hain: That’s a matter for the electorate, I think we’ve got a good chance of winning the next election
I think we still could win under Gordon but we’ve got a long way to go.
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