If you didn’t hear Gordon Brown’s Today Programme interview this morning, do go and listen to it. You can almost hear Brown’s frustration as he tries to—unsuccessfully—wrestle back control of the news agenda. At one point, Brown has to pause and take a breath before continuing as he is getting so riled by the questions.
On BBC News, though, Brown managed to get his line out:
Brown is clearly trying to position himself so that his political fortunes recover if the economy does. It’s a gamble but in the current circumstances Brown has no other option available to him.“I have taken the British economy through difficult times in the past – I have done it before and I will do it again.”
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