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What is Gordon up to?

James Forsyth 1:43pm

This morning the general view was that Wendy Alexander was staying in post because Gordon Brown feared the consequences of her quitting. Yet when Brown was offered the chance to defend his embattled counterpart, the best he could come up with was this:

“"Wendy Alexander is of course subject to an Electoral Commission inquiry," the Prime Minister pointed out, "and it's not really right for me to say anything about the individual instances of that..."
As Boulton and Co. note even Harriet Harman got more emphatic support than that. It seems perverse that having turned Alexander’s survival into a test of his own strength, Brown can’t summon up the courage to give her his full-throated backing.

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ChrisD

December 3rd, 2007 4:22pm Report this comment

I think that you are possible seeing a change of tact by Brown and his inner circle as noted by Benedict Brogan on his blog.
I expect it to be regularly adopted in the coming weeks and possible months as a way to avoid answering direct questions on the subject from either journalists, or even more importantly the opposition leaders David Cameron at PMQ's and Alex Salmond in FMQ's.

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