Summary
The propitious start to Gordon Brown's first year as Prime Minister - the calm and statesmanlike response to the foiled London and Glasgow terror attacks, the summer floods and the outbreak of foot-and-mouth - all now serve only to highlight how dreadful things became in the months that followed. Errors inherited from Brown's final Budget as chancellor, especially the abolition of the iop tax rate, hit sections of the core Labour vote not likely to be forgiving to a prime minister they had had no hand in electing.
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Mr Brown's Long Year
The propitious start to Gordon Brown's first year as Prime Minister - the calm and statesmanlike response to the foiled London and Glasgow terror attacks, the summer floods and the outbreak of foot-and-mouth - all now serve only to highlight how dreadful things beca...
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