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Andrew Gimson writing in The Telegraph yesterday:

One of the Prime Minister’s weaknesses as a debater is that he so seldom dares to think on his feet. Tony Blair liked to seize some novel thought or suggestion and send it winging back in modified form towards his interlocutor: Mr Brown just treats whatever anyone else says as an unwelcome distraction from the tedious Brownite orthodoxy, which then has to be repeated at inordinate length in an attempt to wear everyone else down.

GB’s weaknesses are endlessly anatomised at the moment. His reputation as the Iron Chancellor is long gone - Mandy has his work cut out.