Brown aide Stephen Carter leaves job


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12:32 am - August 31st 2008

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Gordon Brown was battling to contain cabinet indiscipline last night after Alistair Darling undermined his fightback with a devastating forecast for the economy. The Chancellor was unrepentant over a warning in an interview yesterday that the country is on the brink of the worst economic crisis for 60 years.

The fresh infighting came as the ‘IoS’ learned that Stephen Carter, Mr Brown’s high-profile strategist, is to leave his job after a bitter turf war inside Downing Street.

The public relations guru’s move to a lower-key role is a victory for the Prime Minister’s long-serving advisers, who have have clashed with Mr Carter, but will deepen the sense of a Government in crisis. Less than a month after David Miliband infuriated Mr Brown by setting out his stall as a leader-in-waiting, Mr Darling repeatedly refused to deny that there would be a leadership challenge this autumn.

…more at the Independent on Sunday

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1. Labour Matters

It should be noted that 10 Downing Street categorically deny this story is true.

2. Silent Hunter

‘LabourMatters’

And of course……….we can surely ‘trust’ pronouncements coming out of 10 Downing St.

Just like………

There are weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq.

The removal of the 10p tax band will not harm the poorest in society.

We’re getting on with the job.

We’re ‘listening’ to the electorate.

Like I said………………….its a matter of …………..TRUST.

BUT, NO ONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD TRUST LABOUR.

3. Andy Gilmour

For what it probably isn’t worth, while I was making the kids’ dinner, Jack Straw was on Radio 4 being very definite, saying repeatedly that:

a) He wouldn’t be mounting a leadership challenge

b) Nobody would be mounting a leadership challenge

So, bearing his previous track record in mind, who wants to start a book on the exact date of Straw’s/Millipede’s/A.N. Other’s leadership challenge?

:-)


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