Andrew Marr has just gone into Number Ten. Adam Boulton describes him as a "sympathetic interviewer". That would be why Marr is doing it, rather than the BBC's political editor Nick Robinson, who would be far more aggressive. Robinson will be fuming. This is not just an important interview for Gordon Brown, it's high noon for Andrew Marr. Anything less than a searching, robust line of questioning and he will look like a patsy.Of course, far be it from me to allege that on the day England beat Australia it is a good day to bury bad news, but it's probably better to get it over with on a weekend than leave it until Monday.
God how I'm looking forward to PMQs on Wednesday.
Adam Boulton is now saying that the spin they're putting on it is that it really wasn't anything to do with Gordon, it's all these wicked advisers around him who have been pumping it up. The latter is certainly true, but what kind of leader do we have if he fails to tell them to stop it, and calm down.
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This is spin, he'll call an election. It'll be announced tomorrow morning, and everyone's going to rave about Brown's courage, etc....
I must say that Nick Robinson of late hasn't struck me as someone who would question Gordon Brown aggressively. And yes, Andrew Marr can be described as 'sympathetic to Brown'. That is actually an understatement.
In my opinion, the spin about 'wicked advisers' doesn't work. As you say, Iain, what kind of leader is Brown if he couldn't call his lieutenants to order? He encouraged all the election speculation talk, which, in my opinion, constituted an abuse of the political process. Now that the whole thing appears not to have worked to his advantage, he cannot really be heard to say that it was nothing to do with him.
Coward.
Does this man have any backbone at all?
Chamberlain II... let's hope we have a stable world for the next 2 years.
BBC reporting News of the World poll givies Tories 6% lead in marginals
As I said on Friday afternoon - there were a lot of Labour MPs in marginals looking distinctly sick and down in the dumps
Also note that Andy Marr goes out at 9 AM on BBC1 on Sunday when the mass audience will be watching Lewis Hamilton become F1 champion on ITV.
2 commentators on BBC Kevin Maguire of the Daily Mirror and Michael White of the Guardian both lefties.
Typical and now Steve Richards of the Independent. Bloody BBC.
Andrew Marr won't do this interview justice.
Echos of the interviewing style around the time of Suez:-
"Excuse me, Prime Minister, do you have anything to tell us?"
"NO"
"Thank you, Prime Minister, thank you very much"
Yep, Kevin Maguire, Michael White and then followed by Steve Richards for opinion pieces on News 24.
Why don't they get someone like Richard Littlejohn???
>God how I'm looking forward to PMQs on Wednesday.
Yes, David Cameron will deservedly have a field day. I remember Michael Howard taking David Blunkett's book to PMQs one day to embarass Blair. I know we're beyond "Yah-boo" now, but Cameron should take Gordon Brown's book called Courage and throw at it him!
So Brown's adviser's will cop the blame. But surely Brown himself fired the starting gun on this by announcing Ed Miliband as his election co-ordinator on the day he became Labour leader?
Ah but if Cameron does go on the attack at PMQs Brown will be able to brush away his criticisms with the classic catch all riposte "er, um , er well I've only been in the job 106 days you know"
I jus saw Marr summarising his interview on the BBC and it was as if he was spinning for Brown. Explaining that it was his advisers who were bringing information to Brown who, as Prime Minister, had a duty to look at it. After taking a look, he has decided against it.
If Marr lets him off with that in the interview he should be sacked.
marr is a puppet! it is a disgrace..Paxman should have done it..can you imagine!
It's typical of Brown that, though all this election speculation came directly from him, he's now endeavouring to blame Doug Alexander and Ed Miliband and is prepared to sacrifice them in order to try to save his own skin.
Can Brown sink any lower than dumping on his own lieutenants when they were only acting on his orders?
Brown is playing with fire.
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