Thursday, Jun 28, 2007
Closest ally gets poisoned chalice
FT.com: Cabinet survivor succeeds Brown
Alistair Darling has long been Gordon Brown’s closest cabinet ally and has been widely tipped to succeed him at the Treasury.
Competent, unflappable and unswervingly on-message, this 53-year old Scottish lawyer and MP for Edinburgh South West since 1987 is one of only a handful of survivors from Tony Blair’s first cabinet.
Poor guy..
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1. sovietuk said...
No doubt Trickster Brown will blame Muppet Darling for the problems created during 10 years of reckless economic mismangement.
2. wage slave said...
I'm sure he'll try but I think the last 10 year's mantra of 'no more boom and bust' will come back to haunt him.
3. Bryan said...
WS
I'm sure GB could come out with something like "I meant no more boom AND BUST while chancellor