Uses For Gordon

If anyone else stood against Gordon Brown and won, then what would they do with Gordon Brown? They'd be insane to keep his Chancellor, and not much more sensible to make him Foreign Secretary or Home Secretary. He'd just walk out if offered anything more junior than that. On the backbenches, he spend all day and all evening plotting with MPs and briefing journalists. Even if he were made an ambassador, then it would really have to be to Washington or the UN, enabling him to conduct his own foreign and trade policies, effectively independently, and with the ear of whoever happened to be the President of the United States, a country his own political links to which go back a lot further than those of Tony Blair himself, never mind of any Blairite successor (including David Cameron). All in all, Number 10 is actually where Brown can do the least damage.