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Gordon Brown, Member of Parliament for Dunfermline East, is now Prime Minister of England. As this post carries with it responsibility for some few matters applying to the rest of the UK, he will be known formally as Prime Minister of the UK.

Upon entering No 10, Brown said:

I have listened and I have learnt from the British people - and as Prime Minister I will continue to listen and learn from the British people - I have heard the need for change. Change in our NHS, change in our schools, change with affordable housing, change to build trust in government, change to protect and extend the British way of life.

Of course, by “our NHS”, he means “England’s NHS”. By “our schools”, he means “England’s schools”. By “affordable housing”, he means “affordable housing in England”. For his own constituents, all these matters have been devolved to the Scottish Parliament.

I’m finding this rather irksome.

Finally, with a rare touch of irony, US President George Bush has sent former PM Tony Blair to the Middle East as peace envoy.

Posted on Wednesday, June 27th, 2007 at 21:36. Filed under Politics

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