The TV cameras trooped in to film the beginning of Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling’s meeting with various oil big-wigs this morning. After Brown thought they’d stopped filming, he announced:
This really is Potemkin politics. It is hard to imagine that many voters will be fooled by today’s ‘summit’.“Well that was an unreal start to a meeting… Now we can relax!”
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