No one outside Downing Street can imagine how tense it must be getting in the bunker as the economic situation worsens and the period Gordon Brown has to turn things around shortens.
My suspicion is that it is getting very tense indeed. I was informed on Friday that No 10 was not happy with some of the things I have been writing on The Bright Stuff. We already know that people around the Prime Minster were concerned at the suggestion that they were studying footage of Obama’s apologies. Officials have been unable to identify the person who was asking for this footage I am told. All very mysterious. But then again, would you put your hand up?
Now they are unhappy at the suggestion that discussions of the “legacy” are off-limits. I can only say that I can’t help it if senior people come out of meetings and tell me they can’t discuss the subject. Maybe it’s all in their imagination.
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