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Mr Bean

November 28, 2007 00:00

Cameron was very effective today at PMQs, but Vincent Cable was lethal, describing Gordon Brown's remarkable transformation from Stalin to Mr Bean.

It's an image that I predict will now take hold. It's amazing how one phrase in one sentence at PMQs can be devastating.

UPDATE: It seems Vincent Cable is not the first person to have made the allusion. In his Express column of 19th November, Leo McKinstry wrote:As with Mr Bean, Brown is a major social embarrassment to those around him.



November 28, 2007 00:00

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