By trying to portray himself as a genuine and all round politician,the words that he believes that this recession has some way to go has got all the headlines.Is he trying to usurp his old friend Gordon Brown? I wrote yesterday that he may well be the person to deliver the coup de grace to Gordon and one wonders whether this interview was intended to stifle next weeks new economic announcement on fuel prices and housing.A process that by all accounts he has been excluded from.
Some commentators certainly believe this to be the case.Mike Smithson says that
But are the messages that are coming from the PM and Chancellor about the economy compatible each other? Could Darling’s “gloom” warning be seen as a way of undermining Brown who clearly has a lot of his personal political capital invested in things being less worse than might appear?
Peter Hoskin meanwhile asks whether Alistair Darling just earned himself the chop and adds that as the views
depart completely from Gordon Brown's alleged belief that the economic storm clouds will start dispersing in a couple of months - No.10 may read them personal affront to the Prime Minister, and another supposed sign that the Chancellor is a dangerous livewire who needs to be dealt with in the forthcoming reshuffle.
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