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<a href="http://blogs.independent.co.uk/openhouse/2008/11/predicting-the.html">Jane Merrick: Predicting the Brown Bounce</a>

Did Gordon Brown see his bounce coming eight months ago? In the middle of March, over lunch with a Cabinet minister close to the Prime Minister, I asked what was the one thing that could rescue Brown.

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