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Brown to Britain: "Crisis? Which crisis?!"

Wednesday, 28th November 2007

When Jim Callaghan, the last Labour Prime Minister to lose a British general election, returned from an overseas summit in sunny climes to widespread winter turmoil back in Blighty, he was reported to have asked: “Crisis? What crisis?”.

When Jim Callaghan, the last Labour Prime Minister to lose a British general election, returned from an overseas summit in sunny climes to widespread winter turmoil back in Blighty, he was reported to have asked: “Crisis? What crisis?”. Even though he never actually used these words, his lackadaisical reaction to the growing crisis of the Winter of Discontent in 1978-79 became the template for election-losing political delusion. For Gordon Brown, who now faces his own Winter of Discontent, it was more a question of “Crisis? Which crisis?” as he arrived back in the country from Uganda this week.

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