A question of priorities

At his press conference this morning, Gordon Brown said that he would reply to David Cameron’s letter about meeting with the civil service in due course. It is an improvement on a spokesman’s answer last weekend that, “The prime minister is in Afghanistan, so it is not top of his list of priorities” But it is still ridiculous and petty that the Prime Minister won’t sign off on these meetings that play an important role in ensuring the smooth transfer of power when the governing party loses an election, something that we can surely all agree is in the national interest.

It says something about Brown’s priorities that he has the time to write to the mother of the X-Factor winner but not to the leader of the opposition about this important constitutional process.
 
PS Ben Brogan reports that Brown has now relented.