Gordon Brown, Prime Minister by Tom Bower

By Tom Bower

The gripping within tale of Gordon Brown’s upward thrust to develop into best Minister. Gordon Brown’s arrival on the Treasury in could 1997 used to be greeted with nice pleasure – let alone anticipation. officers of each rank appeared on confidently to determine what miracles the chancellor could paintings. And so, as grasp of the hot period, Brown created relationships throughout each Whitehall division and prolonged his impression to each element of presidency. He introduced into influence an important budgetary alterations of the earlier decade: the dedication to personal Finance Initiative, which altered infrastructure from the London Underground to the NHS and country faculties; the administration of the Inland profit; the rise in taxes; and the death of Britain’s pension money. during this gripping and completely up to date biography, reissued to coincide with Brown’s assumption of Tony Blair’s mantle, best-selling writer Tom Bower records the increase to energy of a pushed and intricate flesh presser, and exposes how the goals of the Labour Party’s leader-in-waiting will impact the rustic for many years to return.

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Finally, I should like to take this opportunity of once again acknowledging my deep and ever-growing debt to the editor of this edition of my essays. No author could ask for a better, more disinterested, scrupulous or energetic editor; and I should like to offer Dr Henry Hardy my thanks for exhuming, and putting together, this collection, composed over a long period, against what must, at times, have seemed not inconsiderable odds – some of them due to the idiosyncrasies of the author. Isaiah Berlin June 1980 EDITOR’S PREFACE Some years ago I lent a copy of Isaiah Berlin’s volume of essays on his contemporaries, Personal Impressions, to a friend and neighbour, the psychiatrist Bob Gosling.

I cannot attempt to summarise this here: instead I should like to quote from a letter written to Berlin by Joseph Brodsky (in English) on 26 March 1980, after he had read a draft of the piece sent to him by Berlin: Your memoir simply made me weep. ] If it made crying me, a well-tempered Russian Jew, I can imagine the way it will do in the American + English public. It’s like Romeo and Juliet played by a royal family. ] the whole piece is just heart breaking. It has to do, I suppose, with the incongruity of this grave subjectmatter with the dignity of your narrative.

The utterance is always, and not merely on special occasions, formal 1 334. 2 150. 3 343. Winston Churchill in 1940 • 9 (though it alters in intensity and colour with the situation), always public, Ciceronian, addressed to the world, remote from the hesitancies and stresses of introspection and private life. III The quality of Churchill’s volumes on the Second World War is that of his whole life. His world is built upon the primacy of public over private relationships, upon the supreme value of action, of the battle between simple good and simple evil, between life and death; but, above all, battle.

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