How does Brown plan to deliver on his promises?

There is a consensus in the papers this morning that for all the politiical skill of Gordon Brown’s speech, it puts us no closer to knowing how Brown plans to achieve his ambitious aims. As Peter Riddell says in The Times, “we are no nearer to understanding how a Brown Britain would work in five or ten years’ time.”

In The Guardian, Jonathan Freedland reports that, “One unreconciled Blairite listening to it all shook his head in despair, branding the speech as “dire”. Everyone wants a personalised NHS, he bellowed. “How’s he going to do it? “This central question – how?” – remained unanswered.”