Gordon Brown: I’m a control freak
The words are Gordon Brown’s:
You have accused us of being a bunch of control freaks. Well in a way that’s what we have to be because we don’t have an identifiable aim which is ideologically based: because there’s no core idea to hold the party together in tough times we have to use discipline instead.
Source: Ashdown Diaries, Volume 2, 2nd December 1997.
Hat tip: Hywel Morgan.
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