Thursday, September 28, 2006
Mary Ann Sieghart in the Times, on Blair's conference speech:
I watched the speech on the internet last night. I mean, did you see it?
But we've decided he's through, so that's it. The party thinks that Mr Bean will be more the ticket.
Lots of luck with that.
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The Conservatives can't believe their luck. One Tory texted a colleague of mine during the speech to say, "Thank God he's going." They won't miss him when he's gone, but Labour certainly will. For none of the leadership contenders, Gordon Brown included, has Blair's extraordinary gift of being able to convert people to his cause. Conservative-inclined journalists admitted to me after the speech that they were swept away by his arguments and had to shake themselves to try to remember why it was that they used to hold a different view.
I watched the speech on the internet last night. I mean, did you see it?
But we've decided he's through, so that's it. The party thinks that Mr Bean will be more the ticket.
Lots of luck with that.
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