Voters Will Not Forget Brown's Election Folly ; Today the Pm Will Start to Set Out His Programme. But Public Trust in Him has Been Badly Damaged by His Cynicism Over an Early Poll, Says the Shadow Chancellor

Evening Standard - London › October 08, 2007

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THE MOMENT I knew the election was definitely off was on Thursday evening.

I was sitting on the BBC Question Time panel in front of a lively audience in Stratford, east London. Almost every thing the Labour Cabinet Minister said was met with laughter. "Gordon's delivered a stable economy" no he hasn't cried an audience whose memories of the Northern Rock crisis are still fresh.

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Voters Will Not Forget Brown's Election Folly ; Today the Pm Will Start to Set Out His Programme. But Public Trust in Him has Been Badly Damaged by His Cynicism Over an Early Poll, Says the Shadow Chancellor

"Gordon didn't spin the Iraq troop numbers" yes he did they roared back, why else did he fly over to Basra in the middle of the Conservative conference? With that kind of public mood, and faced with a strong and resurgent Conservative Party, Mr Brown bottled it. I ...

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