PM makes grand entrance with help of his aides
Gordon Brown looked like he had finally got the respect he craved today as he toured a health centre.
Unfortunately the men on their knees were not voters expressing their gratitude for the way the Prime Minister had steered the nation out of recession.
They were Labour aides holding open a pair of double doors to give the television cameras, right, a more dramatic shot of Mr Brown and his wife Sarah on the campaign trail. He certainly didn't get the red carpet treatment from one GP at the Yeadon Health Centre in Leeds.
Dr Andrew Wright said that he had doubts about Labour plans to make cancer diagnoses available from primary care centres. "We would find it quite difficult to offer that kind of level of specialist service here. A lot of my colleagues would feel quite uncomfortable taking the responsibility of these diagnoses," Dr Wright told Mr Brown. Asked by Mr Brown whether the answer was to get more specialists into centres like Yeadon, he said: "That might be possible. But you have got to think whether that is the best use of specialists."
