Gerri Peev’s story in The Scotsman today has a quote in it from Nigel Griffiths which takes the biscuit:
Nigel Griffiths, the Edinburgh Labour MP who is close to Mr Brown, said: “I can describe his response to the financial crisis in one word – Guinness. Pure genius.”
Mr Griffiths, who has been campaigning in Glenrothes, said the reaction to Mr Brown had changed remarkably. “If you had asked me ten days ago how it [the by-election] would go, I would have said we had narrowed the gap but the SNP were still ahead. Now, I’m thinking we could win Glenrothes.”
The Glenrothes by-election is gaining in importance by the day. If Labour hold the seat, the press will declare Brown the comeback kid. If they lose, the narrative will change and Brown will once more be seen as a deeply unpopular Prime Minister.
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