Summary
Clement Attlee once famously advised the academic activist Harold Laski that, 'A period of silence on your part would be welcome.' And Ronald Reagan is said to have told his associates, 'Don't do something, just stand there.' Or perhaps the Chancellor would prefer to heed a fellow finance minister.
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Why Brown's Premiership Could Be Short-Lived
Inguessing at the shape of Gordon Brown's premiership, we have to ignore two groups. First, there are the idolaters, the inner clique that believes, really believes, that application of the Brown intellect to the social and foreign policy problems facing Britain will cause those problems to crumble under the pounding of that clunking fist. More of what has been on offer from No. 11 is all that is needed at No. 10.
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