Gordon Brown says he's no banking crisis superhero - and the Tories and Lib Dems agree

Gordon Brown says he's no superhero - Tories and Lib Dems agree While the PM is flavour of the month at the moment, no one in Westminster seems to think this will last I'm afraid I missed the press conference for foreign press this morning where Gordon Brown was asked how it felt to be regarded a superhero. I was at a Lib Dem briefing instead, but Nick Clegg never gets questions about being perceived as the saviour of the global capitalism. Jim Pickard from the FT has a nice post about the Brown appearance here. Clegg's news conference was rather different, but what the two events show is that everyone at Westminster is currently obsessed with trying to work out who's going benefit politically from the banking crisis. Let's start with the Tories. The best guide to their official thinking on this is a post that has gone up on... [read full story]                    

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