'To Margaret Beckett, it must all have seemed terribly flattering: a cosy call from Gordon Brown, seeking the lowdown on all her Cabinet colleagues. And knowing they spoke in strict confidence, the ever-discreet Foreign Secretary could for once let her real feelings show.
'But while the gruff-sounding Scot put through to her by Downing Street sounded like the Chancellor, Beckett had fallen victim to a remarkable hoax. Unbeknown to her until The Observer broke the news to her yesterday, she had spent 10 minutes chatting about who was up, down and shouldn't be in the cabinet to impressionist Rory Bremner. And his tape recorder was running.' (Guardian article).
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