Brown & the Crown Leadership of Labour Seems an Arm's Reach From the Chancellor, but Will His Succession Be Painless or Will the Party Descend Into Civil War?
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'NICE. And look straight ahead, then turn to the left. OK. Lovely." Just across the road from Westminster Abbey, with Big Ben as the backdrop, a photographer is encouraging his model.
Barely dressed in a pink bikini, with a pink ribbon in her hair, she sits, head back, on a pink Lambretta scooter. An onlooker stops, looks at the model, looks back at Westminster and then shouts to the photographer: "Hey, I thought this kind of stuff went on inside the Commons, not outside!" The small crowd that has gathered laughs. Westminster is not a political palace taken too seriously at the moment.See the full content of this document
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Brown & the Crown Leadership of Labour Seems an Arm's Reach From the Chancellor, but Will His Succession Be Painless or Will the Party Descend Into Civil War?
A passing Labour MP, noticing the model flick her hair at Big Ben, points at the photo-shoot. "We'll all get screwed unless we can get past this. Tony and Gordon are having a cat-fight inside.
Outside, we're being laughed at." Since the discovery of John Prescott's sexual adventures, Patricia Hewitt's public humiliation, Charles Clarke's Home Office fail-mark, Labour's local election drubbing and a backfiring Cabinet reshuffle, the "cat-fight" over the Labour crown has accelerated to new levels of intensity. Blair's hold o...See the full content of this document
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