There is plenty of baffled commentary in this morning’s newspapers about the strange US-style transition arrangements between the Blair and Brown regimes – see for instance this leader in the Guardian. There is also still more on who will do what in Gordon’s court, who’s in, who’s out. But the definitive piece remains Fraser’s one on the Brownite “Octet” in the Spectator last September.

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