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What Rishi Sunak can learn from Gordon Brown’s golden mistake

7 May 2024

4:13 PM

7 May 2024

4:13 PM

Gordon Brown is a historian by education, so he might just appreciate the fickleness of posterity. Over a decade at the Treasury from 1997 to 2007, he did many things that he might believe should be widely remembered. Yet few, if any, of his decisions live as clearly in memory as ‘Gordon Brown sold the gold’.

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