Vince Cable, the best leader that the Lib Dems never had, told me over the weekend that he now rather regrets dubbing Gordon Brown “Mr Bean” in a famous question he posed in the Commons.
“It’s a joke that won’t go away but it makes me wince a bit whenever anyone brings it up because Brown has obviously become a rather tragic character and it doesn’t seem appropriate to make fun of him any more,” says Cable. “I also have this awful feeling now that when I die the headline on the obituaries will read “'Mr Bean’ man dies."
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Monday, September 01, 2008
Vince Cable regrets "Mr Bean" jibe
According to Tim Walker in the Daily Telegraph:
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He said this on This Week, weeks ago. Typical Torygraph, being behind on things.
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