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Damian McBride: 10 things his book tells us about New Labour
"8) Brown is famous among his colleagues for telling a joke about a Japanese admiral
McBride does not go into detail about what the joke involves, saying only that Brown might tell it again to Ed Miliband and Ed Balls in Downing Street, should the pair win the next election. Andy McSmith at the Independent says
the joke concerns Jimmy Wray, a former Labour MP who was so poor as a child he used to go to school in second-hand clothes. When he met someone who said the same, Wray added: "Aye, but you didn't have to go as a Japanese admiral."..."
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/shortcuts/2013/sep/24/damian-mcbride-10-things-book-labour