Jonathan Freedland captured Gordon Brown’s character well (“Giant ambition,” January). Brown will not be thanked for his PFI initiatives for building hospitals that will cost future tax payers billions. But he was shrewd in his decision to give the Bank of England power to set interest rates, his refusal to join the euro and his leadership at the time of the crash of 2007-8.
His speech in the Scottish independence campaign was critical to the outcome. In time, his reputation may supersede everybody else from the 1990-2015 era. David Rimmer, Hertford Heath