Gordon Brown Prime Minister - Tom Bower

Author - TOM BOWER Publishing House - Harper Perennial RRP - Available in paperback at Amazon.co.uk for £6.99 =================================== Prime Mincer ========= I hazard a guess that Gordon Brown isn't embedded in the Sports channels as expressed recently while asked what he will be doing while on vacation. He is in fact steaming under the collar and it won't be in a steam-room either; his fury is due to 'The Prince of Darkness' Lord Mandelson comments claiming Brown would be up for a US style TV debate against the opposition. Going by Tom Bower, autobiography nothing worse could possibly rear its head, out of the depths of ...  Read the complete review

With Gordon Brown's travails dominating the news just recently, and with most of his government's problems being put down to the flaws of his own personality, I thought I'd have a read again of this highly critical biography. Its author, Tom Bower, is well known not giving the subjects of his work much credit - he has, for example, recently published what has been described as a hatchet job on a former owner of The Daily Telegraph - and this book is no exception to that trend. For what emerges from its pages is a portrait of a brooding, dictatorial control freak, seething with frustration and nursing some long-standing grudges against those he believes to have betrayed ...  Read the complete review