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Article: Brown can't change - that's why he must go ; Encouraged by Downing Street loyalists, the Prime Minister still believes he can survive. But his biographer is convinced this is now an impossibility
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 28, 2008
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THE PICTURES say it all.
Gordon Brown, supposedly relaxing on his Suffolk holiday, looks
tense and uncomfortable; David Cameron, strolling barefoot with his
wife on a Cornish beach, appears happy and natural.
Brown is palpably out of touch with the rest of Britain on
holiday; he is isolated from reality. Even after the disaster of the
Glasgow East by-election, he does not believe anything has
fundamentally changed. Encouraged by loyalists in the Downing Street
bunker, he believes his survival and eventual re-election are
possible. Yet for those beyond the bunker, Brown is now nothing more
than a salesmen with nothing left to sell.
Brownism was always about camouflage.
Ever since he arrived ...