Why Can't He Say Sorry? ; Mr Brown's Letter Is Not a Note of Apology. It Is a Deeply Shaming Document Bereft of All Human Sympathy, Says Stephen Glover

Daily MailApril 16, 2009

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THE LABOUR MP Gerald Kaufman famously described his party's 1983 manifesto as the longest suicide note in history. Gordon Brown's letter this week to the Tory MP Nadine Dorries could yet turn out to be one of the shorter suicide notes in history.

Here is a woman who was grotesquely slandered in a now public email by Mr Brown's trusted lieutenant, Damian McBride. Most newspapers have not repeated the smear in every grisly detail out of consideration for Ms Dorries. Anyone on the receiving end of such unspeakable filth would be bound to have been shaken.

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Why Can't He Say Sorry? ; Mr Brown's Letter Is Not a Note of Apology. It Is a Deeply Shaming Document Bereft of All Human Sympathy, Says Stephen Glover

So when rather belatedly Mr Brown came to write a letter to her, his instincts as a human being, as well as his position as Mr McBride's boss, demanded genuine expressions of sympathy and a heart- felt apology. What the Tory MP, in fact, received fell shockingly short of that. One could reasonably say that in this cursory 89- word missive, Mr Br...

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