Philosophical Beckett Says Brown Is Still the Right Man to Lead Country ; Margaret Beckett's Career has Suffered Some Heavy Blows This Year but the Mp for Derby South Says She Is Not Ready to Back Away From Politics Just Yet. In a Frank Interview Today the Labour Stalwart Talks to the Derby Telegraph's Parliamentary Correspondent Joseph Watts

Derby Evening Telegraph › September 15, 2009

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RESHUFFLE day is always full of surprises but the events of Friday June 5 were unusually frenzied.

Gordon Brown's MPs were plotting, his Pensions Secretary had resigned and by teatime there were several unexpected arrivals in the Cabinet - plus one or two unexpected departures.

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Philosophical Beckett Says Brown Is Still the Right Man to Lead Country ; Margaret Beckett's Career has Suffered Some Heavy Blows This Year but the Mp for Derby South Says She Is Not Ready to Back Away From Politics Just Yet. In a Frank Interview Today the Labour Stalwart Talks to the Derby Telegraph's Parliamentary Correspondent Joseph Watts

I phoned Margaret Beckett straight after hearing she was a casualty and caught her queuing at a supermarket checkout, having been at Number 10 moments before.

Asked why she left...

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