Times and Telegraph blog the Blair-Brown interregnum
Posted by
Martin Stabe
on 27 June 2007 at 16:20
Tags: Times
The Times has been doing a great job today covering the handover of power to Gordon Brown on its News Blog.
It has used the blog to highlight the many steps of today’s transition, including some great little details that would not have made it into full stories.
My favourite post of the day is the one put up by Sam Coates at one o’clock this afternoon about who would be in charge during the half-hour interregnum between Tony Blair’s resignation and Gordon Brown’s meeting with the Queen.
For about 30 minutes, Britain would be without a prime minister — plenty of time for Coates’ 85-word post to explain how the British constitution deals with this procedural quirk.
Update: Just noticed that The Telegraph’s by Carlin and Isaby made the same observation on their blog much earlier in the day. They note that the thought came from a qustion at the morning briefing for Lobby journalists yesterday. The factoid was certainly trotted out at exactly the right moment!
Tags: Times
