How Brown views himself

The Gordon Brown interview in The Guardian is revealing about the man. As Fraser noted earlier, Brown takes the opportunity of the interview to lie again about his spending plans. He also does the classic Brown trick of saying he won’t use his children for political gain even as he has them come in and play as he is interviewed. He seems oblivious to this clear double-talk.

Brown’s response to the question of whether he knew about Damian McBride’s habit of sending journalists abusive texts is comic:

“I didn’t know that. I didn’t know that. It’s not what I do. Anyway, I don’t text. But when that behaviour was discovered: out! Gone! Away! No longer working for me. And I think if you look at the people who work in our office … it’s people who’ve come from charities, academic life, business …”