To judge from the Prime Minister's performance on television the other evening, which reminded us that the best thing to do with private grief is to see it stays private, the coming election will have little to do with policy. Labour's priority is not to spell out what it stands for, or, more to the point, how it would extricate Britain from the mess it is in (and which Mr Brown, in large part, has made). It is to "humanise" the Prime Minister. I pine for the days when prime ministers did not need to verify their membership of the species, but got on with the difficult business of governing. Everything else is a distraction.
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