Constitutional reform? Gordon was ‘the primary block’

Just watching Gordon Brown at the Liaison Committee and they’re going to get round to constitutional reform a bit later, before they do some questions on “Being Prime Minister!”

Anyway, the Prime Minister was a little earlier giving a speech on constitutional reform, fresh from the Cabinet giving the go-ahead to an amendment to the Constitutional Renewal Bill calling for a fresh wave of constitutional reform.

Compare and contrast an interview we did with Lord Ashdown last summer, which you can see below, with these words from Gordon Brown’s speech today.

Gordon Brown: “As a constitutional reformer and long-standing supporter of change I admit that I at times have been frustrated by slowness of the process of change.”

Lord Ashdown:

Gordon Brown: