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What sort of a man is Gordon Brown? What kind of Prime Minister will he make? Can he stem the growing unpopularity of the Labour Party and win it a fourth term in office? This book, written in the first three months of the year in which Brown becomes Prime Minister, is both a biography and an assessment. Francis Beckett interviewed several of Brown's closest political collaborators, and had a background briefing from Brown himself. He says the popular image of Brown is entirely wrong: he found an amusing, erudite and charming man who will bring his own style to 10 Downing Street--not Tony Blair's style, but at least as stylish. He believes that a Brown premiership will mark a fundamental break with the Blair years: a new and different relationship with the USA, a broader foreign policy which is able to look beyond the Middle East, a new and more transparent way of reaching decisions. In a groundbreaking final chapter, he draws on the best evidence available to predict what Gordon Brown will do with his new job.
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Francis Beckett s ten books include acclaimed biographies of three earlier premiers - Clement Attlee, Harold Macmillan and Tony Blair. His Clem Attlee, which has been reissued this year, is now the standard work on this most radical of all Labour's premiers. Beckett was also the commissioning editor of Haus Publishing s critically acclaimed series The 20 Prime Ministers of the 20th Century published in October 2006.
What sort of a man is Gordon Brown? What kind of Prime Minister will he make? Can he stem the growing unpopularity of the Labour Party and win it a fourth term in office? This book, written in the first three months of the year in which Brown becomes Prime Minister, is both a biography and an assessment. Francis Beckett interviewed several of Brown's closest political collaborators, and had a background briefing from Brown himself. He says the popular image of Brown is entirely wrong: he found an amusing, erudite and charming man who will bring his own style to 10 Downing Street--not Tony Blair's style, but at least as stylish. He believes that a Brown premiership will mark a fundamental break with the Blair years: a new and different relationship with the USA, a broader foreign policy which is able to look beyond the Middle East, a new and more transparent way of reaching decisions. In a groundbreaking final chapter, he draws on the best evidence available to predict what Gordon Brown will do with his new job.
About the Author
Francis Beckett s ten books include acclaimed biographies of three earlier premiers - Clement Attlee, Harold Macmillan and Tony Blair. His Clem Attlee, which has been reissued this year, is now the standard work on this most radical of all Labour's premiers. Beckett was also the commissioning editor of Haus Publishing s critically acclaimed series The 20 Prime Ministers of the 20th Century published in October 2006.
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Gordon Brown, Labour Party, Tony Blair, Prime Minister, Neil Kinnock, John Smith, Nick Brown, Downing Street, Charlie Whelan, Margaret Thatcher, Charles Clarke, House of Commons, Wilf Stevenson, New Labour, Harold Wilson, Edinburgh South, Peter Mandelson, Sue Nye, Edinburgh University, Shadow Cabinet, Adam Smith, Paul Routledge, Geoffrey Robinson, John Edmonds, Shadow Chancellor New!
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