Gordon Brown spins the same old security yarn

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From: Marcus Williamson
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:23:08 +0200


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http://comment.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/article2611723.ece

Leading article: Mr Brown spins the same old security yarn

Published: 04 June 2007

How dispiriting a start is this? Even before he has moved into Number 10, Gordon Brown is already playing the national security card. Not only this, but he is using the same well-worn techniques as his predecessor to ensure that he gets his message out on his terms and no one else's. In a series of Sunday newspaper reports - attributed, of course, to well-placed sources or none - he let it be known that he yields to no one, including the present incumbent, in his determination to crack down on terrorism.

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