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One of the strangest things you’ll ever hear a British PM say…

Iain Dale – among others – has already picked up one particular passage from Gordon Brown’s interview with the Mail on Sunday today.  It contains such a bizarre quote from our PM that it deserves repetition here:

“The growing pressure on him appeared to show during an interview with The Mail on Sunday, in which he refused to answer questions about his hopes of survival. ‘I’m happy to talk to you because you are here,’ he snapped. ‘I have given you special time. That is very good of me. You are very fortunate. I am not going to do an all-round interview about everything that is happening in politics.'”

Quite what this says about how Brown’s dealing with the pressure of his role, I’ll leave for CoffeeHousers to decide.

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