Mr Brown seemed to display no feelings when they told him the news.

他们把消息告诉布朗先生时，他好象无动于衷。

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He may now be in a better position to promote the fiscally responsible policies that, more than Mr Brown, he has seemed to realise are necessary.

他现在比布朗先生更能意识到可靠负责的财政政策必不可少，而要推行这种政策，目前他可能处于较为合适的位置上。

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The ashes of Mr Brown's premiership seemed to be floating around Westminster even before his weekly parliamentary showdown with David Cameron, the Tory leader, on June 3rd.

ECONOMIST: The prime minister has never been closer to losing office

And an entirely unscientific analysis of backbench Labour opinion seemed to suggest that Mr Brown really did not have anything to be bothered about.

BBC: Analysis