Gordon Brown’s desire to have it both ways is quite incredible. In his conference speech Brown took a personal and cheap shot at David Cameron, accusing him of using his children as props. But now he is perfectly happy to use his children as the backdrop for a soft-focus interview with Alison Pearson of the Mail and to talk on the record about their health issues.
But once you have got over this and the irony of Brown, who keeps stressing that he is a serious man working flat out to try and solve this crisis, taking time out to indulge in sofa politics you’ll find there is a revealing and important quote in the piece. The Prime Minister is prepared to concede to Pearson that “comprehensives did not work in the cities”.
Now, I’ve done a quick cuts search and this seems to be stronger and more direct than what Brown has said previously about the move to comprehensives.
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