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Article: On enemy territory
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- New Statesman
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- March 10, 2008
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His desire to outflank the Tories on the right has distorted Gordon Brown's thinking, writes our political editor, Martin Bright
It has become something of a sport for the tormentors of the Prime Minister to pick apart his speeches for borrowings from across the water.
So it was that Gordon Brown's speechwriters were revealed by the Times to have lifted a few key phrases and ideas from Al Gore, Bill Clinton and John Kerry for his first Labour conference address last September in Bournemouth.
This time it was Barack Obama's turn to provide the inspiration. Brown's claim, in his speech at Labour's spring conference a few days ago, that he would bring "a new politics that places power and the ...