Freedland gives Brown a kicking

Brown’s been Prime Minister for a year next week, so you can expect the papers to be stuffed with articles on his premiership so far. Coffee House will be making its own contribution, but it’s Jonathan Freedland who gets the ball rolling in this morning’s Guardian. And he does so with some venom. The headline tells you all you need to know – “A year in, it’s clear: we got Brown wrong. He is simply not up to the job”. But here are some selected quotes anyway:

“At its most basic, [Brown] seems to lack the skills of a man who would lead a 21st-century nation. “He came in like an Oxford don, with a study full of files and papers on the floor,” laments one minister, who now regrets listening to the Brownites who persuaded him to back their man a year ago. “He’s a dinosaur,” the minister adds, lamenting Brown’s failure to delegate, his dithering, his days that start – or end – at 4am…