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Guardian Unlimited Politics | Comment | Planetary leader leaves it to his understrappers |
 | | Instead he had planned a sarcastic tribute to Mr Brown: "It would be churlish not to congratulate him on his long period in office... |
| | but he has some way to go before he matches the record of Vasily Fyodorovich Garbuzov, who was Soviet finance minister for 25 years and who tragically died in of fice without ever becoming prime minister..." |
| | He clearly hopes to become the Gromyko of the Labour party, the one constant politician in an ever-changing world. |
| politics.guardian.co.uk /columnist/story/0,,1241784,00.html (578 words) |
