The story that Gordon Brown personally calls members of the public who write him critical letters gets more bizarre with the news in today’s Guardian that he has apparently being doing this since 1997. This suggests that he can’t be calling that many people as otherwise this would have surely leaked out before now.
Someone who has received one of these calls told The BBC:
‘the prime minister apologised on behalf of the government “for what had happened to the people of Iraq”.’
This flags up another potential problem with the scheme: people who have been phoned could start coming forward and announcing that government policy on x,y or z has now changed.
We’re still offering a case of champagne for anyone who has a genuine recording of one of these calls.
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