The Chancellor, Gordon Brown, was on the Today Programme this morning in the prestige ten-past-eight interview slot. The interview was interesting as revealing the media style of the (possible) next Prime Minister. I was so interested in the way he was speaking that I only heard half of what he said.
Gordon Brown was very skilful at answering the questions within his competency as Chancellor. On broader issues his style changed and became a strange mixture of hesitancy and agitation (repeating words twice in quick succession, inserting "er" frequently, struggling to get words out of his mouth). When asked about the Iraq war his reply was clumsily evasive and he just referred the interviewer to speeches he had given on the subject.
He was obviously uncomfortable about misleading people (which we all knew he was doing). On a human level this was a very likeable quality. As a professional politician he is going to have to learn to lie with confidence.
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