Two moments stood out for me in Gordon’s Andrew Marr interview: when the PM discussed the health service, not only personalised but capable of delivering to patients the “doctor that they want, the GP at the time they want” he was echoing his recent tea-guest, Margaret Thatcher (I want to go to the hospital of my choice, on the day I want, at the time I want.) Not much comfort for public sector workers there.
Second, when Marr expertly pressed him on election timing, Brown let slip the extent to which he is now absorbed by this matter. Asked about Callaghan’s famous decision not to go to the country in 1978, Gordon smiled and said there are “so many historic analogies” – revealing that he has indeed been consulting his extensive historical library for precedents. If I were him, I would go in October. What do other Coffee Housers think?
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