Ouch!

Periodically, like sunshine after rain, a smile would break across his face as if by remote control and for no apparent reason.

and

That may be the secret of Gordon's ability to take the punishment. Adversity never gets him down: he's down already.

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The herbivorous Benn was clearly there to play the soft warder while Hutton, wild-eyed at the very thought of energy profiteering, was Mr Hard. Any proof of that and he'd promised to come down on profiteers "like a tonne of bricks". The idea of getting energy monopolists on the rack in a Whitehall basement clearly excites him.

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