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'Brown's got worst smile in world'.


GORDON BROWN faced renewed mockery Mockery
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changed into lizard for mocking Demeter. [Rom. Myth: Metamorphoses, Zimmerman, 1]

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pompous object of practical jokes. [Ger.
 of his YouTube performance last night, as John Prescott

For other people named John Prescott, see John Prescott (disambiguation).
John Leslie Prescott (born 31 May 1938) is a British Labour Party politician, former Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Secretary of State and current Member
 described the Prime Minister's smile as the worst in the world.

The former deputy prime minister A Deputy Prime Minister or Vice Prime Minister is, in some countries, a government minister who can take the position of acting Prime Minister when the real Prime Minister is temporarily absent.  was trying to extend his support to Mr Brown, who is under pressure on a variety of fronts.

But he drew fresh attention to the Prime Minister's nervous grinning in the

YouTube clip, for which he has been widely derided since it was posted by Number 10 last month.

"I have worked with Gordon Brown for an awfully long time," Mr Prescott said on the election campaign trail in York.

"He must have the worst bloody smile in the world, but the man has got the ability and the intellect to get on with the job." To the amusement of onlookers, Mr Prescott also pulled a face apparently in imitation of the Prime Minister..

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Publication:Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Date:May 6, 2009
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