Oh dear. After Brown’s grandiose claim that he was “trying to get the oil price down”, No.10 must have hoped that the pre-existing downwards trend in prices, and the petrol pump competitiveness by supermarkets, would continue for some time to come – so our Dear Leader could claim all the credit. A shame, then, that the Opec countries have just decided to cut oil production; with the expressed aim of increasing prices. The problem for the PM is that if tries claiming credit for positive developments he hasn’t influenced, then he risks looking like a failure when the trends turn against him.
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