Brown's Britain How Gordon Runs the Show

by Peston, Robert

• ISBN13: 9781904095675
• ISBN10: 1904095674
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-03-01
• Publisher: Short Books

Summary

When Gordon Brown reluctantly stepped aside in the race for the Labour leadership in 1994, he entered into a fragile, turbulent but hugely successful political marriage. In return for the keys to Number 10, Tony Blair was forced to cede almost complete control over the domestic agenda to his Chancellor.
This book, for which Peston was granted unprecedented access to the Chancellor and his friends and colleagues, draws back the veil on the brooding man who has been Britain's longest serving and arguably most powerful Chancellor in more than 100 years. Filled with telling quotes and unexpected insights, it takes you right to the heart of the secret power games that go on behind the gates of Downing Street, and looks ahead at what Brown would do if he were to become Prime Minister in name as well as deed.

Table of Contents

An inherited mission	p. 23
Losing the leadership, winning power	p. 44
Capturing the treasury	p. 72
How the Bank of England made a credible socialist of Gordon Brown	p. 112
How Brown won the confidence of the financial markets so that he could be a real socialist	p. 149
"Clear and unambiguous" - how Brown took control of the historic decision on whether to join the euro	p. 178
"The man in the white coat" - how Brown kept the UK out of the euro	p. 217
Progressive universalism - redistribution in the age of globalisation	p. 246
Brown's Britain	p. 288
End of the deal	p. 324
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