“What makes Gordon Brown so popular with newspapers and voters? This may seem a strange question to ask when the Prime Minister has just suffered the worst local election defeat since the early 1980s and faced the most humiliating headlines since the collapse of John Major's economic policy on Black Wednesday. But considering just how disastrously Mr Brown's Government has lately been performing, the real surprise about this week's U-turn on taxes has been the mildness of the media and public response….”
“…Yet far from demanding Mr Brown's immediate resignation or predicting the inevitable demise of his Government, the media have mostly treated this week's U-turn as the moment when the Prime Minister's fortunes could start to recover.”
Yes, I thought that curious, too.