One of the most significant disclosures about the incoming Brown regime is the news today that the next PM will bring Jeremy Heywood back into Number Ten as head of domestic policy and strategy. After working for Norman Lamont and Ken Clarke, Heywood was Blair’s private secretary between 1999 and 2003, and was one of the few close advisers to the Prime Minister to remain on genuinely good terms with the Treasury. He is currently managing director and co-head of UK investment banking at Morgan Stanley – no small post to relinquish. He is a formidably able man, and his appointment is the first concrete evidence of what Brown means by a “government of all the talents”. Strike One to the Clunking Fist.
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