On 24 March 2009 , after Gordon Brown had given a short speech to the European Parliament in Strasbourg in advance of the G20 London summit , Hannan followed up by delivering a 3-minute speech strongly criticising the response by Gordon Brown to the global financial crisis . He finished the speech with the phrase , " the devalued Prime Minister of a devalued government " , which was a quote taken from a 1992 speech by then-Labour Party leader John Smith about then-Prime Minister John Major
G20 London summit
2009 G20 London summit
Daniel Hannan