Charlie Beckett has a good post on the media crisis facing Gordon Brown's administration and compares with the situation facing John Major after he took over from Mrs Thatcher.
He muses on a conversation that he had with Lord Fowler who
agreed that Major did have a similar problem. But he pointed out that Major was seen as a new face so it took longer for the media to decide to take him apart. Major was Chancellor and Foreign Secretary before becoming PM but it happened so quickly that he left virtually no trace. When he went in to Number 10 it was as if a new party had taken power. Norman felt Gordon has bigger problems.
The problem being that Brown is not a new face,will be associated with the problems surrounding the economy and has Charlie points out the main difference being
In the end John Major had enough support in the Conservative press, a brilliant election campaign and the guts to put himself in the front line. He may have been grey but I watched Major in action and he was impressive.
It hardly bears thinking that Gordon Brown would get on a soap box and address the electorate.Yet thatis what Major did in the 1992 campaign and it may well have been the move that gave him the edge in the election
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