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Credit where it is due
I have been accused of sometimes being too hard on Gordon Brown. It is certainly the case that I think he has issues communicating on an emotional level with the public or in a language they can understand. But, credit where credit is due: Gordon Brown did a very good job leading the G20 and secured an outcome which will help to knock some of the roughest edges off of the global recession. By their collective action the G20 agreement should help to avoid the isolationism and protectionism which combined to turn the Wall Street Crash into the 1930s Depression.
If communication isn’t GB’s strongest card then attention to detail certainly is and anyone watching his performance in the post-match interviews will have witnessed a Prime Minister with the facts, figures and finances at his fingertips. It is hard to see David Cameron commanding such authority on the World Stage.
Gordon may not be a Clinton, Blair or an Obama when it comes to selling the deal but even his sternest critics can not take away from him his success today. Tom Bradby from ITN asked if he was confident that the G20 meeting in London would now mark the beginning of the end of the Global downturn. Gordon avoided that trap. We had all better hope that if it is not the beginning of the end London’s G20 is at least the end of the beginning. If that proves to be the case Gordon Brown can take some of the credit.
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