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In fact, we have had a silence that Gordon Brown would be proud of.Gordon Brown's Government may well be in its death-throes, but Labour's debt—and the harsh impact that paying it back will have on devolved spending—will be with us for years.
If he wrote it into his contract that no damages could be claimed, he might shoot himself in both feet simultaneously. Mr Brown's point is nonetheless well made.
Blair was not the only such Labour guru: Gordon Brown was a neo-liberal economist, Peter Mandelson was a neo-liberal economist and Jim Murphy was a neo-liberal economist.
Frankly, nobody has got to grips with the risks or even the proper measurement of the financial sector in the UK. I have one last question. Gavin Brown has asked it already, but I felt that the answer that he received went off at a tangent a little bit.
Lord Stern, the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee in Westminster and even Lord Browne of Cuadrilla Resources came to the same conclusion: shale gas will not have a material impact on gas prices.
I believe that the Scottish Government can and should be doing more to tackle the example that Graeme Brown has set out. That would mean fulfilling its promises on tackling homelessness and backing pledges for the living wage for all public sector workers across Scotland.
For example, Mr Matheson and I have on different occasions visited the Thistle Foundation in Craigmillar and both of us have met Brian Brown, an inspirational former soldier whose life had been wrecked by post-traumatic stress disorder but was turned around with the sort of person-centred care that we want to become the norm.