Gordon Brown Biography

“I did maths for a year at university. I don’t think I was very good at it. And some people would say it shows.”

"No newspaper has done as much for me in the last two years." Brown thanking David Cameron for the off-shore Lord Ashcroft funded poster campaign intended to criticise him. It, in fact, had the opposite effect by managing to use a rare photograph of the Prime Minister actually smiling.

‘Step outside Posh Boy’
The quote that adorned T-shirts featuring Gordon Brown looking surly and ready to Glaswegian kiss the nanny raised, Etonian, David Cameron. The T-shirts were, in fact, an April’s Fool spoof, by ‘The Guardian’ newspaper, but inquiries were so great that they actually went onto sell them commercially.