Non-Labour Mark Malloch-Brown attending cabinet

Simon Morley Thu Jun 28, 2007 at 02:15:41 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

Mark Malloch-Brown, former head of UN Development Program, and Deputy to Kofi Annan, is being made Lord and cabinet attending, presumably based in FCO. So non Labour person attending cabinet. What do people think? For me seems good to bring in people with relevant experience. Was at last Tory conference, but presumably oficially neutral.





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Non-Labour Mark Malloch-Brown attending cabinet | 7 comments (7 topical)

Re: Non-Labour Mark Malloch-Brown (#1)

by Curlew on Thu Jun 28, 2007 at 07:41:40 PM GMT

I thought I heard he was a venture capitalist?  Bit of a conflict of interest and insider trading if he hears all that goes on?  Or am I confusing him with someone else.


Re: Non-Labour Mark Malloch-Brown (#2)

by Simon Morley on Thu Jun 28, 2007 at 09:08:47 PM GMT

I wonder if you are thinking of Damon Buffini?


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Re: Non-Labour Mark Malloch-Brown (#4)

by Curlew on Thu Jun 28, 2007 at 10:47:10 PM GMT

You're right Simon, - and I presume that none of that table of businessmen gets to sit on the cabinet.


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Mark Malloch-Brown (#3)

by David Boothroyd on Thu Jun 28, 2007 at 10:34:34 PM GMT

According to the Prime Minister's spokesman, Sir Mark Malloch Brown will take the Labour whip in the House of Lords. He had no previous political affiliation beyond trying to be an SDP candidate in 1983 (claims he was sussed as an opportunist).


Re: Mark Malloch-Brown attending cabinet (#5)

by jkitleft on Fri Jun 29, 2007 at 10:02:44 AM GMT

Brown is trying to send the signal of a more sceptical Britain in foreign policy. Malloch-Brown opposed the war, Denham resigned, Milliband was critical of the Lebanon war


Re: Mark Malloch-Brown attending cabinet (#6)

by Curlew on Fri Jun 29, 2007 at 11:28:02 AM GMT

It does sound promising..


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Re: Mark Malloch-Brown attending cabinet (#7)

by swatantra on Sun Jul 01, 2007 at 09:16:27 AM GMT

Denham lacks charisma and has simply been rewarded for resigning at the right time. Straw should not have been made Lord Chancellor, for a start he's not a Lord; it should have gone to Helena Kennedy. Straw would have been better off being named DPM and Chief Troubleshooter, Chairing all the Cabinet Committees, the role that Prescott did.


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Non-Labour Mark Malloch-Brown attending cabinet | 7 comments (7 topical)