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Loyalty can do a leader no favours

Life and Nothing But: Sorry really was the hardest word, then. After five days of twisting himself in knots of regret, Gordon Brown finally got round to a proper apology for the scurrilous McPoison-Draper e-mails.

SORRY really was the hardest word, then. After five days of twisting himself in knots of regret, Gordon Brown finally got round to a proper apology for the scurrilous McPoison-Draper e-mails.