Yesterday??I wrote that the Health and Foreign Secretaries should go for incompetence. Today I learn they are leaving. That is a good start for the new government.

Gordon Brown’s speech on the steps of Downing Street was well judged. He was right to call for opportunity for all, and to recognise that people want change. The question is, Can he supply the change when he has been such a central part of the old regime?

This morning the sad news came of the first deaths of soldiers in Basra on the new prime Minister’s watch. Many of us want an end to these deaths as soon as possible. That would be a welcome change.

This morning we still awake to the surrenders made by Tony Blair in Brussels. We want a pledge that our new Prime Minister will renegotiate it all at the forthcoming IGC, or will give us a referendum so we the people can express our view on the Blaid legacy in this field. Gordon Brown will find this is part of the damaged??inheritance he has received.

The morning we still do not know what will be the outcome of the enquiries into some of the top officials of the Blair regime over the cash for peerages allegations. It is in the new Prime Minister’s interest that this is resolved as quickly as possible so his party can move on from that unhappy episode.

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