Brown thinks truth row is a distraction

Just been interviewing the Prime Minister on a train trip north… it’s the nationalised East Coast line and it is now crawling along because of signal problems.

Gordon Brown clearly feels that David Cameron has too readily slipped into personal attacks on his integrity over claims that he’s used statistics dishonestly.

He thinks the row over who is telling the truth is a massively irrelevant distraction and denies he brought this problem upon himself.

I asked if the U-turns on Royal Mail, ID cards and the Iraq inquiry showed he had no authority – he said voters were interested in issues like growth and investment where the government was making progress. He said it was good to be on a nationalised railway and that the engineering and chemical industries would be next. (I made the last bit up.)