Peter Hoskin

Quote of the day | 14 September 2009

…comes courtesy of one Gordon Brown, in interview with Robert Peston:

“Well, I’ve never been someone who myself has been interested in running up personal debts or borrowing huge amounts of money.”

Ahem.

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