Sarah Brown's lasagne offensive

The Prime Minister has a secret weapon to win the loyalty of the Cabinet: his wife's cooking You see her here, you see her there. Sarah Brown, the normally reticent wife of the Prime Minister, is coming out into the open to battle for her husband's political career. She is the cook behind the "lasagne offensive", which Gordon Brown has launched to improve working relationships with his cabinet ministers. She has also stepped up the frequency of her public appearances, displaying the easy social skills she honed as the founder a PR agency before her marriage – skills in which her workaholic husband is notoriously deficient. It is barely a month since two cabinet ministers, James Purnell and Hazel Blears, walked out of the Cabinet complaining, in effect, that they could not work with Brown any more. He is accused of operating... [read full story]                    

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