Visit to Number 10
I had occasion to visit 10 Downing Street today. Now, over the past 35 years, I must have been there around 20 times – but only when the office has been occupied by a Labour Prime Minister: Harold Wilson, Jim Callaghan, Tony Blair and (for the first time today) Gordon Brown.
However, I could not help wondering today whether Brown will be at No 10 much longer. Once Labour Party delegates gather at the Annual Conference this weekend in Manchester, who knows what will happen? Last year, a collective mania hit the delegates as speculation over a sudden General Election became frenzied. This year, the comrades may be calling for a different kind of election.