Sky News has said that it will stage one with or without Mr Brown.
Mr Salmond said he had met Mr Murdoch senior "five times in five years" which he believed was "pretty reasonable" and "isn't in the same league as Mr Blair, Mr Brown or Mr Cameron".
In the past year or so, Mr Brown has moved on to stage two: microeconomic reform.
It introduced university tuition fees and a bigger role for private providers in publicly funded health care, a reform that may, in time, dramatically alter the shape of the NHS. But the Blair-Brown rift stalled the reform process, and it more or less ceased during Mr Brown's three-year premiership.
None of this, naturally, comes from either Mr Brown or Mr Blair.
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But if the funding or data scandals deepen, Mr Brown may yet be forced to offer up a pound of ministerial flesh.
That will help the prime minister go out on a high next May (or thereabouts) and offer Mr Brown the chance to lead a stable government that knows where it is going.
"Although Vuillard is a realist, he is manipulating and using the figures in his surroundings to represent people in a way that expresses a particular kind of feeling or condition, " Mr. Brown adds.
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Some have suggested that the 74-year-old Mr Brown wants, consciously or otherwise, to leave the same imprint on California as his father did.
As long as the issue of the day is spending on schools, hospitals and the like, rather than Mr Brown's personality or his record of economic management, it may be that Labour still has a chance to prosper.
Will Mr Brown confirm, in words or body language, the claim of his erstwhile rival, John Prescott, that chancellor and deputy prime minister are now thick as thieves in a partnership of Keynesian demand-managers?
"Indeed, at yesterday's staff interview of former FEMA Director Michael Brown, agency lawyers advised Mr. Brown not to say whether he spoke to the president or the vice president, or comment on the substance of conversations he had with any other high level White House officials, " Lieberman said.
He taunted Mr Brown for failing to deliver better schools or hospitals.
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Mr Brown said a move out of Vauvert or La Houguette was a matter of choice and that no-one was being forced to make that decision.
There, however, the clarity pretty much ends, and not just because Mr Brown will surely spring a populist surprise or two (remember the extra cash for hospitals and schools in July, or the pensioners' winter warmer in November?).
Manifesto promises will stop Mr Brown raising the basic (23%) or top (40%) rates of income tax.
As is usually the case with a statement by Mr Brown, most of them had been announced or trailed before.
What did not was Mr Brown's appearance on television a day or so later, telling bewildered viewers how miffed he was not to have been given a place by Mr Blair on Labour's National Executive Committee.
"I think the housing market in Britain therefore has a better chance of starting more quickly again than the housing market in the States (US) or Spain - but that's a relative judgement, " Mr Brown added.
Both Mr Blair and Mr Brown believe that the next election could be won or lost in the coming 12 months, when voters will have a chance to decide whether Labour or the Tories look most like coming up with answers to problems that have changed considerably during the government's decade in power.
But Mr Brown has not presided over any cast-iron disasters or lethal scandals.
"There might always be the occasion where we've got a child not breathing or someone in cardiac arrest or an elderly patient with chest pain that needs that response, " Mr Brown added.
Because Codiqa couldn't add a customized GPS feature to pin the location of the trees, or a photo uploading capability to capture images of the trees, Mr. Brown turned to W3Schools.org and HTML5rocks.com for online tutorials.
Indeed, says Stephen Bond of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, an economic research group, it is far from clear that Mr Brown's package will make much difference to investment or productivity, even though the capital gains tax reform is likely to encourage more new firms to be formed.
But it is the Edsel that became Mr. Brown's most famous legacy, despite or because of its epic downfall.
California's employee-privacy protections would place firms in the "untenable position of having to violate either state law or their Finra obligations, " the group wrote in a letter to Mr. Brown.
Even if all the tax they pay is VAT on expensive meals in London restaurants or stamp duty on flats in Mayfair, it is still additional income for Mr Brown.
Mr Cameron is, of course, the real target of Mr Brown's strategy, designed as it is to win over actual or would-be Tory voters.
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In polls conducted in late spring by David Paleologos of Boston's Suffolk University, Mr. Brown could not clear the 50% hurdle against Ms. Warren or other hypothetical opponents.
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Mr. Brown, by contrast, will have to win the group by 20 or more percentage points.
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