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Since the worst of the immediate financial crisis hit, however, Gordon Brown has found his stride and the regicidal agitators within his own party have called 'an end to hostilities.'
The sigh of relief from Labour's press team is almost audible across Westminster. As Daily Politics editor Penny Davies put it, “If it's proven - and that's a big IF - that George Osborne tried to solicit party donations from Russia's richest man, that's serious and his political career is holed below the water line.”
Enthusiastic bloggers of the left have pounced with glee on the spectacle of a mired leading Tory. Similarly, those on the right have developed a sudden and thoroughly respectable distaste for political gossip.
With Nat Rothschild throwing Mr Osborne to the wolves and David Cameron’s weak and moody performance on the economy at Prime Minister’s Questions it would seem their chameleonic talent for being on the ‘right’ side of any public issue has at last been found wanting.
Labour would do well to avoid crowing, however – party funding is hardly the most inscrutable of their records in power.
See also: The wheels come off
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22 October, 2008 Karma chameleon
The Conservatives had been desperate for something to drag the news cycle away from the Prime Minister's deft handling of the financial crisis. A gossip-fest surrounding the boy George's alleged improprieties was not it.
For eighteen months the Conservatives had appeared untouchable, at least while they stood opposite a clumsy and increasingly unpopular Mr Brown. Even continued scrutiny of über-benefactor Lord Ashcroft's less-than-transparent domicility and tax-status have ruffled few feathers.
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