Priti 4 Witham

While I bask in temperatures of over 45 degrees, I have escaped the rain at home, but not the avalanche of media coverage surrounding Labour’s new Leader and Deputy Leader. Gordon was his natural solid self yesterday when he pushed all buttons required for his Labour Party audience. However, the real congratulations if the day has to go to Labour’s new Deputy Leader, Harriet Harman. Her political career once rose, fell and has now risen again from the ashes of the Blair era. That said, I could not help but notice a quote in one international newspaper today from a nameless Cabinet Minister about Harman’s victory (no doubt a Blairite) – ” A Harman victory would be a throwback to the past. I would sooner leave the country than watch her deputise for Gordon at Prime Minister’s Questions’.  While I suspect we will not get to see Harman deputise for Brown, it looks as if not only the Conservative Party will be giving her a hard time in her new role!