Gordon Brown couldn’t sack Harriet Harman even if he wanted to
James Forsyth 3:04pm
Three Line Whip, the new Telegraph politics blog, points out that because Harriet Harman was elected by the Labour party membership she serves at their pleasure not Gordon Brown’s. This means that Ms Harman is safe unless this scandal meta-sizes again.
Also worth checking out at the Three Line Whip, which promises to become a daily must read, is Iain Martin’s assessment of PMQs. Iain is surely right that Brown needed a clear win today to restore his authority and he didn’t get it. But judging by how many people are quoting him, it was Vince Cable who landed the most telling blow on the Prime Minister. As Alan Cochrane points out, ridicule is often the one thing that a politician can not survive
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Rockingham
November 28th, 2007 3:31pmYes, but he could sack her from the government.
Eats Wombats
November 28th, 2007 4:11pmDon't you mean metastasizes? Things are in any case going to hell in a handcart.
Pondering Peter
November 28th, 2007 5:03pmCan we declare this lot bankrupt?
Mark Forsyth
November 28th, 2007 5:07pmTrue - megasizes, I can't even think what metasizes would mean outside of advanced relativity theory.
Chris Paul
November 28th, 2007 6:51pmHarrie is NOT DPM she is Deputy Leader of a political party and "chair" of it with a couple of little jobs. She can be sidelined easily in Govt terms without losing the party roles, though they might want to make someone else chair who cares about details, albeit potentially important, around donations.
James Peters
July 10th, 2008 4:47pmGet rid of them both