Brown's flawed war plan

Gordon Brown wants to style himself as the leader Britain needs for the coming ‘economic war’. His political survival depends on persuading, one might use another word here, the electorate that only he has the toughness, experience and knowledge to lead us out of this financial turmoil. I suspect that Brown will get a boost for being in charge and appearing to have a plan at the moment. But when this crisis turns into a recession, the public will turn on Brown. Charles Moore comes up with a brilliant analogy for Brown’s predicament in his Telegraph column today: “This week he resembles Neville... [read full story]