Brown has his eye on the ball

It’s good to see that the world’s leading finance ministers slum it on the same flights as us mere mortals to the IMF/World Bank meetings. For who should be on the Virgin flight from London Heathrow to Washington, DC, than UK chancellor Gordon Brown?

Of course Euromoney didn’t discover this on the flight itself, as we were in cattle class while Brown and his aides were no doubt enjoying the free champagne in business or first.