An hour is a long time in politics

It has been a momentous week as the global financial system is in crisis. Here’s a fascinating article in the Guardian recalling the last seven days at the heart of the political machine.

It starts:

‘Shortly before 8.00am on Wednesday Gordon Brown and a group of aides swept through a secure passage in Downing Street.

As armed police held open glass doors, which normally screen visitors, Brown hurried along the link between No 10 and the Cabinet Office and into Britain’s answer to the White House’s “situation room”.

Minutes after announcing that he would gamble £500bn to save Britain’s banking industry from collapse, Brown was heading into the government’s Cobra room to chair a meeting of his economic war cabinet.’

Read the full article here