Gilmore fields a Cabinet team of Grumpy Old Men

NEW politics: same Old Boys Club.

Gilmore fields a Cabinet team of Grumpy Old Men
Sat, 12 Mar, 2011 - 00:00
Shaun Connolly: Review

Splits within the Coalition parties over the carve-up of Cabinet posts was to be expected, a bitter battle within Labour itself was not.

Eamon Gilmore’s Cabinet land grab was tactically brilliantly in political influence terms, but terrifically dumb in the realm of public relations.

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