The PM & Wake Up To Money

Sunday, July 01, 2007

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Interesting to note that in focus pieces by Nick Watt in the Observer and Patrick Hennessy in the Sunday Telegraph about our new PM's frenzied first few days in office, Brown is 'outed' as someone who rises at 5:30 AM of a morning to Radio Five Live's Wake Up to Money.

But just look at how similar their opening paragraphs are:

"As an early riser who likes to flick on his radio every morning on the dot of 5.30 AM for Five Live's Wake Up To Money, Gordon Brown..." begins Watt.

Now this is Hennessy in the Sun Tel: "Gordon Brown is a famously early riser, preferring to stir on weekdays to the sound of Wake Up To Money on Radio Five Live, which goes out at what most of his fellow Britons would consider to be the ungodly hour of 5.30 am."

Clearly this is coincidence rather than consipiracy, but is it stretching things too much to suggest that Gordon "we don't do spin" Brown's erm... spinner Damien McBride picked up the phone to both hacks to present his boss as an action man who, Thatcher-style, thrives on very little sleep....?

Posted by James Silver - On Sunday, July 01, 2007

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