This morning’s Today Programme had an item on the Foreign Office Minister Mark Malloch Brown that’s well worth listening to. Malloch Brown has quickly become the most controversial of Gordon’s appointments. His desire for a “more impartial” foreign policy, for Bush and Brown not to be joined at the hip and his endorsement—albeit while still at the UN—of a unified EU seat on the Security Council has made him a ripe target for the press.
Presumably, that’s why Malloch Brown turned down Today’s invitation to go on to talk about the new UN resolution on Darfur But if Malloch Brown is having to be shielded from the press just months after being appointed, what chance is there of him making it all the way through to the election?
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