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BBC nicely summarises Gordon Brown's legacy

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Lester Haines

Tue 11 May 2010 // 13:05 UTC

As Blighty staggers today towards a possible LabLibDem alliance, or maybe an unholy ConservoDemocrat pact, the BBC has been busy putting together an in-depth analysis of Gordon Brown's legacy, as he prepares to to the right thing take the long walk into political oblivion.

We have to say, it's one of the Beeb's better pieces of work:

Empty news story on Gordon Brown's legacy

Yup, that just about sums it up. ®

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