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Brown: 'I Could Walk Away At Any Moment'
My @rse - he schemed for the top job for 10 years
Awww bless - the poor little lamb.
I;d settle for a better PM - well a different one!
As nobody voted for him who is stopping him?
If that is the case then why is Blair not still the PM?
Go on then go! Do it for your kids
I'd prefer it if he was a teacher also - then he can only piss off 30 or so people at a time!
My @rse - to get where he is he has had to do his fair share of back stabbing and pole greasing. Unless by it he means being the PM - then I'd agree 100%
Yes he was - he hired him for that reason.
What a 100% ******
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Brown: 'I Could Walk Away At Any Moment'
Gordon Brown has insisted he is not interested in the trappings of power and could walk away from Downing Street at any moment.
The Prime Minister, who faced down an attempted coup earlier this month, also indicated his "hurt" at some of the criticism levelled at him.
In an unusually frank interview with The Guardian, he admitted he wished he was a better communicator and claimed he was not very good at political manoeuvring.
Speaking in the immediate aftermath of the failed backbench plot to oust him, Mr Brown said: "To be honest, you could walk away from all of this tomorrow.
"I'm not interested in what accompanies being in power. It wouldn't worry me if I never returned to any of those places - Downing Street, Chequers.
"That would not worry me at all. And it would probably be good for my children."
He hinted that he might be drawn towards teaching - a "great profession" - as a post Downing Street career and insisted he had never been keen on political machinations.
He said that it had been a "revelation" to him at university that politics was "less about ideals and more about manoeuvres", adding: "I don't actually think I am very good at it at all."
His comments follow the smeargate controversy in which Damian McBride, one of his closest aides, was forced to resign for suggesting spreading unfounded claims about Tory MPs.
Mr Brown was also criticised for the culture of "macho politics" in Number 10 by resigning minister Jane Kennedy earlier this month.
But he said: "Look, find weaknesses in me, criticise me for my weaknesses - I'm not as great a presenter of information or communicator as I would like to be.
"But the one thing people should not say is that I'm surrounded by some group of conspirators."
He distanced himself from Mr McBride, claiming he had never been aware of his reputation for sending abusive text messages to journalists.
Mr Brown was also criticised for the culture of "macho politics" in Number 10 by resigning minister Jane Kennedy earlier this month.
But he said: "Look, find weaknesses in me, criticise me for my weaknesses - I'm not as great a presenter of information or communicator as I would like to be.
"But the one thing people should not say is that I'm surrounded by some group of conspirators."
He distanced himself from Mr McBride, claiming he had never been aware of his reputation for sending abusive text messages to journalists.
What a 100% ******
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