"Gordon Brown has postponed plans to publish on Monday a “next steps” plan for Labour’s last months in office before the election, as ministers try to rustle up new ideas to revive his administration.I think the expression "Dead Man Walking" sums up Gordon Brown at the moment.
Mr Brown on Friday convened a three-hour cabinet meeting to discuss the initiative – dubbed “Building Britain’s Future” – which he hopes will provide the government with new momentum.
But Mr Brown’s team feared that the draft document – due to be launched next week – was light on new policies and did not contain a convincing political narrative.
A trawl around Whitehall departments for ideas was said to have been underwhelming. Civil servants privately admit it is hard to motivate officials to devise policies for a government whose term has less than a year to run and that could soon be out of office."
Tuesday 16 June 2009
"light on new policies and did not contain a convincing political narrative."
The FT report that:
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