Steve Richards’ balanced New Statesman article on the extent of the Brown bounce is well worth reading in full. But this passage jumps out:
“Another view from inside the government is that Brown is too loyal to colleagues. As one minister who had been pressing for changes in Downing Street for months put it, ‘the untold story about Gordon is that he is too nice’.”

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