Brown’s post-G20 rhetoric sounds a lot like his pre-G20 rhetoric

Yesterday brought plenty of insights into Labour’s pre-election strategy – rumours of poster campaigns; a series of attacks on the Tories; and talk of how the Government would use the G20 to refine its domestic message.  But perhaps the most striking aspect of it all was how, fundametally, the approach remains the same.  The emphasis is still on those infamous dividing lines: “investment vs cuts”, “nice vs nasty” etc.  And, while there are efforts to wrap a post-G20 bow around some of this, the content is wearily familiar.    

Gordon Brown’s interview with the Independent today does little more than confirm this.  Here’s the most substantive passage:

“Rehearsing his election lines against the Conservatives, Mr Brown insisted that the end of the free-market consensus – and need for greater regulation – could yet help Labour to neutralise the ‘time for change’ factor that would normally play strongly for Mr Cameron.