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So we Americans aren’t really sure what to expect from Gordon Brown, since we don’t know that much about him, or how he’ll run Britain when he takes over in three days.

The Times - Second Best
The choice of Harman does not reflect well on the Labour Party

Ms Harman’s victory speech accurately reflected the character of her candidacy. She essentially recanted her own vote in the House of Commons in favour of the Iraq war, engaged in cheap and crass antiAmericanism over the war on terror and bent over backwards to appease trade union leaders in their quest to opt out of the real world. Yet in truth, the argument that probably helped her most was the one that she has used towards the Labour Party membership from the outset, namely that it was imperative that, if the leader was to be a man, his deputy really should be a woman.

Great.