The attacks on Malloch Brown continue – this time in the Evening Standard’s diary (not online):
The suggestion is that Gordon Brown did not want Malloch-Brown to represent him at the UN summit, where senior statesmen included President Bush and Nicolas Sarkozy, and so he was called back to England on the pretext that he had to [speak on Darfur at the Labour Party conference]. But Malloch-Brown made no appearance [there] either. As soon as he got to England, he turned tail and went back to the States, but he had already missed the summit.
Could this be a cunning ploy by Brown to keep his gaffe-prone new minister out of the way?
The answer, I would guess, is probably not. But rhetorical questions like these are a good way of keeping the pressure up…
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David Steven is a senior fellow at the UN Foundation and at New York University, where he founded the Global Partnership to End Violence against Children and the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies, a multi-stakeholder partnership to deliver the SDG targets for preventing all forms of violence, strengthening governance, and promoting justice and inclusion. He was lead author for the ministerial Task Force on Justice for All and senior external adviser for the UN-World Bank flagship study on prevention, Pathways for Peace. He is a former senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and co-author of The Risk Pivot: Great Powers, International Security, and the Energy Revolution (Brookings Institution Press, 2014). In 2001, he helped develop and launch the UK’s network of climate diplomats. David lives in and works from Pisa, Italy.
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