Summary
GORDON BROWN has arguably saved his skin thanks to last Friday's Cabinet reshuffle - but one urgent question remains. Is the government the Prime Minister has constructed over the weekend capable of governing Britain over the next 12 months? The brutal Labour Party civil war of the last few days has created one lasting legacy - a series of bitter and rancorous feuds at the heart of the Cabinet which threaten to paralyse British government.
These enmities go right to the top - and the most bitter estrangement is between Chancellor Alistair Darling and the Prime Minister. Darling knows that Brown tried to sack him last Friday - and only held back at the last moment because of a lack of political strength.See the full content of this document
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Riven by hatreds, how can they hope to govern?
The ill-feeling between the two men, who were once close friends, is now so great that when they recently passed each other in a Downing Street corridor they did not even exchange glances.
Splits between a Chancellor and a Prime Minister are a notorious recipe for chaos and paraly...See the full content of this document
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