Mud sticks to Superglue Brown

Gordon Brown’s ability to evade blame once had him known as the “Macavity of politics”. But now “Teflon Gordon has turned into Superglue Brown.”

Gordon Brown's ability to evade blame once had him known as the "Macavity of politics", says Rachel Sylvester in The Daily Telegraph. But now "Teflon Gordon has turned into Superglue Brown."

Hard on the heels of the still unresolved Northern Rock fiasco, and the admission that HMRC had lost half the country's personal data, the beleaguered Prime Minister has been fending off criticisms from the armed forces about inadequate troop equipment, and most recently has had to promise to return more than £600,000 in suspicious political donations after the resignation of the party's general secretary, Peter Watt.

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