The former prime minister says he would be 'shocked and surprised' if a four-person cabinet could work in practice, giving examples of 'quadrumvirates' which were not successful over the long term in the Roman Empire and Cultural Revolution-era China.
Former prime minister Gordon Brown has drawn parallels between Sir Keir Starmer's plans for a four-person cabinet with revolutionary communist China. Mr Brown said he was 'shocked' by reports that Labour intends to form a new four-person executive cabinet if it wins the next election. Speaking at an event alongside Conservative ex-prime minister Sir John Major, Mr Brown said the pair would 'both be quite shocked and surprised if that could ever work'.
'I doubt, as John said, if the other 20 members of the cabinet would be very happy if they were told that they were outside this inner circle.' According to The Times, the new four-person executive cabinet would make strategic decisions that would then be presented to the full cabinet, while a series of new 'mission boards' could also be created to further Labour's pledges to grow the economy and transform public services.
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