World press has field day over gaffe

NEWSPAPERS across the world reported Gordon Brown’s gaffe as a potential death knell to Labour’s hopes of clinging to power at next week’s general election.

New York Times reporter Sarah Lyall said the incident “proved seriously unfortunate for him and for his party”.

“Maybe it was proof of the maxim that a gaffe is when a politician tells the truth. Or maybe it was evidence that Prime Minister Gordon Brown, for all he tries to be nice, might actually be kind of mean.