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Article: The people's Chancellor relishes his role
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 3, 1997
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Some people are released from power, falling with relief into
private life. Others, a few, are released into office. Gordon
Brown is one of them. He has been set free by having heavy
responsibility loaded on to his shoulders. He has been freed from
those years of political impotence; freed from blather; freed to
act.
Our Chancellor is not a habitual public smiler. He was ordered
to start smiling for the cameras some years ago and developed the
alarming habit of baring his teeth in an automatic rictus that
came, invariably, at inappropriate moments - so he'd talk about
unemployment, and grin, or about mass poverty, and grin; and the
effect was unsettling. Delivering his first Budget he ...