Good news for Gordon!

At least one person thinks he can still win! This man

is on much more comfortable ground discussing his work with overseas politicians, including his contributions to Blair’s 2005 campaign, which include dreaming up the slogan “Forward Not Back”*. “Part of the reason I’ve been so successful in so many different foreign countries,” he says, “has been that I’ll come to people who are locked into a world that they see only from their political context … and be able to say ‘No, no, no – let’s take a look at the numbers.'” He seems remarkably sanguine about the current prime minister’s problems. “Look, obviously, Labour and Gordon Brown are in a tough spot,” he says. “But these are situations that he has time to work out before a scheduled election … Oftentimes, these [tough spots] can be a spur to taking the kind of action that’s ultimately successful. There’s plenty of time.”