Well, he's back. He's going to be shadow business secretary, taking on the oleaginous Lord Mandelson. Clarke may be distrusted by many Tories inside and outside the Conservative Party for his pro-European leanings. However, in my opinion he is a very excellent performer, a demolisher of humbug (Mandelson's stock in trade!), and a man who can put forward an argument in ways that the electorate understands. In that, he is an excellent choice.Put him in the House of Commons or on TV, and we will see the slippery Mandelson's plotlines unravel very fast. We need people with the will to get to grips with this financial mess. Funnily enough, it's occurred to me that a pincer action between Clark and Cable in the Commons would be the political death for this New Labour outrage of a government.
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