Once adrift, the former PM now appears a colossus compared to the lightweights in charge
Try to imagine it. Ten years from now, Theresa May is making a speech in defence of the EU. She quotes Shakespeare, Einstein and Churchill. When she says “let me be clear”, she is a model of clarity. A woman with a vision. She talks passionately, intelligently and coherently for 30 minutes entirely off the cuff. She doesn’t even have any notes, let alone resort to using them. Or perhaps not … that might require a total personality transplant.
Yet absence does make the heart grow fonder. Ten years ago, Gordon Brown was a prime minister adrift. Indecisive, insecure, at times borderline shifty. Unloved by many in his own party – not to mention by the country as a whole – he looked to be a man out of time as he tried to navigate a way through the global financial crash. There were few tears shed when he lost the general election in 2010 and resigned as leader of the Labour party. Many would have been happy never to have heard from him again.
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