What are Brown’s “first 10 days” surprises?
Posted on February 20, 2007
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So bad news for Brown in today’s Guardian poll. Michael White has a good political briefing today. He tells us that:
“Even old friends claim not to know what “first 10 days” surprises he has in store to rebrand Labour after 10 years in power, though they loyally insist that he has “the depth, the breadth, the ingenuity and the will to see it through”"
So what will Brown surprise us with in his first ten days?
- In 1997 he surprised everyone, including his civil servants, by making the Bank of England independent in their first weekend in power. Perhaps he will follow this model and make the NHS independent from political control!
- Abolishing the DTI has been a Lib Dem and Tory pledge in the past (although the Lib Dems believe the regions should take more responsbility for commerce). This would be go down well with voters who always like to see less civil servants. However it does raise questions about who would represent business at cabinet level.
- Brown has already hinted that he will give Parliament the power to decide whether to go to war or not - certainly this is something which will be introduced early on.
- In his interview with Andrew Marr, Brown repeatedly emphasised that a Brown government would be about education - we can certainly expect something on this.
If anyone else has any suggestions, answers on a postcard to the usual comments section please.
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