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The Myth of Cabinet Government
I was not very close to Gordon Brown, we fell out almost as soon as I took over as Tony's chief of staff. So the Tony Gordon thing was at its best, I think, good and positive and lots got done, at its worst, a nightmare for all of us. But what generally do you think we did right and wrong in terms of managing the whole system and the whole structure of government? Well, there's a myth of cabinet government that people like Robin Acheron, Butler or Richard Wilson had which was that Britain is governed by a premise into Paris. The only trouble this thing is it's not something that's ever happened. It certainly didn't end under Mrs
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