Sunday, December 12, 2010

Gordon Brown's dilemma over development


Gordon Brown's passion for development issues is evident in his book, Beyond the Crash. But it seems at odds with his enthusiasm for globalisation

What do you do after you have been a prime minister and the longest serving postwar British chancellor of the exchequer? What do you do after you lose a general election? Well, if you read the interview at the weekend by my colleague Larry Elliott, you might have imagined that Gordon Brown is content to take up the post of Kirkcaldy worthy, turning on the local Christmas lights.

But his book, Beyond the Crash, published yesterday and serialised in the Guardian this week, hints at another future: it reads like a very long job application for a role in managing a major global financial institution.

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