Jackie Smith on Brown's other self

Jackie Ashley is definitely falling out of love with Gordon Brown.

In her Monday column in the Guardian this morning,she writes that

Almost every elected leader, surrounded by a hostile press and potential rivals, turns to the dark arts of briefers and ear-whisperers.

and adds that

The truth is that Brown has always been double-sided in his political personality and now the whole country knows it. The ideologically serious, morally driven statesman, whose steely determination was most recently on view in his successful handling of the G20, has lived his life with a sinister twin, spinning and dealing. McBride has been an extension of that other self.