Margaret beckett rory bremner biography
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Margaret beckett rory bremner biography
UK Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett was tricked by comic Rory Bremner when he pretended to be Chancellor Gordon Brown, the comedian has said.
He phoned her on the day of the 2005 general election, when she was environment secretary, and they discussed her Cabinet colleagues.
She gave frank assessments of some of them, advising "Gordon Brown" on who was performing well.
Mrs Beckett said she had "no recollection" of the conversation.
He described the conversation on BBC Sunday: "When she first took the call she said, 'Well, Gordon, and I wouldn't say this to anybody else...' and we suddenly realised what we were getting into, real stuff here."
If he has done as he suggests, it is both an unprincipled and unpleasant breach of privacy Margaret Beckett |
She gave the impression that Tony Blair and Mr Brown were "putting together the Cabinet as a duo" after the election victory, Bremner recounted.
When Bremner, as Brown, suggested to her t