uk: ‘No more smoke-filled rooms’
Gordon Brown said today that the days of the “smoke-filled room” were over and that politicians had to involve the public in decision-making in order to win the arguments for free trade, globalisation and the fight against terrorism. Speaking in Davos in a debate about leadership, the chancellor said that politicians were “in the slow lane of the super-information highway” and had failed to recognise how the internet had revolutionised the nature of political debate.
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