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...deals over jobs like this," he insisted last week. Langdon suggests that Blair and Brown came away from the meal with entirely different understandings of what had been agreed. "The key to Blair's success is that people take from him what they want to hear," she says. "Gordon is fantastically literal and he took from Blair what he wanted to hear. Only when it became clear that Blair wasn't going to stand down did the plates start flying through the air." The sound of breaking crockery can be heard well beyond the confines of Westminster...
...thing that will stop Gordon becoming prime minister is Gordon...
...summer, and should be preparing for its referendum on the E.U. constitution. But the Prime Minister and his allies may calculate that the biggest casualty would be Brown himself, because the party would blame him for the bloodshed. Brown biographer Langdon concurs. "The one thing that will stop Gordon becoming Prime Minister is Gordon," she says. "He's his own worst enemy in terms of matching ambition to reality." The Labour Party must be hoping that both men opt for humble pie at their next dinner meeting, but nobody expects them to stick to that diet for long...
...Gordon Brown for President! There's one job - a vitally important one - for which the British Chancellor is the person best qualified in the world Though you'd rarely guess it from the British press, which compliments politicians about as often as Prince Harry reads Aristotle, Gordon Brown has been a great Chancellor of the Exchequer - perhaps the greatest of the last 100 years. On this Scotsman's watch, the British economy has outperformed most of its rivals in the rich world, and the British people have seen the sort of steady, noninflationary growth in prosperity that not so long...
...Print A worker at British book chain Waterstone's became the first in the U.K. to be fired for writing a personal weblog. Joe Gordon - who lampooned his "evil boss" online - will reportedly appeal...