Moments into Gordon Brown’s speech about a new kind of government, it is already clear what the speech is about: copying David Cameron.
Addressing a group of voluntary organisations, he has already talked about “top-down solutions” no longer working; the revolution he is announcing is precisely the revolution Cameron has been talking about for months. “Civic responsibiility”…”the empowerment of people”…”cultural and social change”.
Even more flagrantly, his announcement that “I don’t want to carry on with politics as usual” with its “old tired political discourse” and “sloganising” is a direct hit at Cameron’s campaign pledge calling for an end to the “Punch and Judy politics” of Westminster.
Could this be the beginning of Mr Brown’s election campaign?
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