At his post-match press conference, Gordon Brown marched in to declare how seeing the presidential hopes of Tony Blair turn to dust was disappointing but securing the foreign minister’s post for a British peer had been a great victory.
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Letdown for Blair on ‘night of the pygmies’
It was in the end a triumph for the real power in Europe: German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her right-wing friend the French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
