Posted on 07/08/2009 8:03:59 AM PDT by Parmenio
Bad news for Gordon Brown. Mark Malloch-Brown, the highly regarded Foreign Office minister, will announce he is leaving Government tomorrow. It’s bad news not because it’s a surprise - it isn’t - but because he’s the biggest success among the goats (government of all the talents) who has proved invaluable both at the FCO and in No10. With his bulging contacts book, he has helped Mr Brown navigate the diplomatic circuit, and has played a crucial role brokering not just the PM’s influence at the UN but in Africa and beyond. He’s been contemplating a move back to the private sector since last year, and Downing Street had been expecting the move. Controversially, Lord Malloch-Brown has been advocating closer engagement with the Mugabe regime as a way of supporting Morgan Tsvangirai. It won’t make big waves, but in a fag-end government not overflowing with talent the loss of an experienced heavyweight will be felt.
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I forgot to add “good riddance”.
If the goats jumped ship, is it time to throw the donkey over-board?
The literal meaning of the term ‘goat’ is probably more accurate.
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