Interesting piece by Denis MacShane in the Telegraph on how Brown is planning to “trust the professionals” when he becomes PM. MacShane thinks that Brown is comfortable with the governing machine in a way that Blair—who “did not know how to make the Civil Service work for him”—never was. MacShane’s take is certainly very different from Tom Bower’s.
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