To Helle and back

摘要

THEN Denmark's prime minister, W Lars Lokke Rasmussen, called a general election for September 15th, he was staring defeat in the face. An unremarkable character, he got the job only because his predecessor, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, had resigned to become nato secretary-general. His bungled handling of the Copenhagen climate-change summit in December 2009 drew derision abroad. A cavalier attitude to expenses incensed voters at home.