The dysfunctional Brown court

Sue Cameron delivers up another great mix of scoops and quotes in her FT column this morning—it is worth paying £1.50 for this quote from Peter Hennessy alone:

“If you think this lot have a Baldrick-style cunning plan you are flattering them”.

But the more serious point comes from an anonymous insider:

“Downing Street is a court… It’s about individual power and you mustn’t go thinking it’s logical”

The Brown court has been even more dysfunctional than his harshest critics predicted, it has been a brutal reflection of the Prime Minister’s own flaws. The scene Cameron paints of an irate Brown striding the halls, demanding to know how on earth David Cameron was able to beat him and Miliband to Georgia rings all too true.