Gordon's Morning After the Night Before [Edition 2]
Evening Standard - London › September 30, 2009
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THE morning after the night before is a dispiriting experience generally; it's no different in politics. But for Gordon Brown the sense of coming abruptly down to earth happened earlier than he might have hoped after the euphoria of his rallying speech to conference yesterday. Last night he learned that Rupert Murdoch's Sun was to back the Tories in the election. Naturally, he brushed this aside in interviews today but he has betrayed an irritableness in his public performances that sits uneasily with the self-image he sought to project yesterday.
He is right that it's the voters who count in winning elections. The Sun does not have quite the ability to swing the popular vote that it makes out; rather, it has a sound sense of which way the current is going and swims with it. But that's the trouble: the underlying sense that the mood of the country is against the Government has not been dispelled by a relatively successful conference -- public disaffection runs too deep for that. There may well now be a small bounce in the opinion polls -- indeed, it would be surprising if there were not -- but it seems unlikely to last.See the full content of this document
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Gordon's Morning After the Night Before [Edition 2]
On the credit side, there has been no challenge to Mr Brown's leadership, notwithstand...
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