The change agenda

I heard Alistair Darling on the Today programme this morning, rolled out as one of Gordon Brown’s trusted lieutenants, attempting to justify why Brown used the word “change” seven time in his brief speech on the steps of 10 Downing St yesterday. It beats me how the man who held the purse strings over the past 10 years, whose input was fundamental throughout the Blair years and who was the architect of many of Labour's policies in that time can consider himself an instigator of change. Also, if and when he does change anything, and about the only issue Darling could speak about this morning was to provide more affordable housing, then that will surely be an acknowledgement that what they did and the policies they introduced up until yesterday were mistakes and wrong.