Since leaving Downing Street in 2010, Gordon Brown has been busy. A series of books has emerged from his handsome stone house in North Queensferry on subjects including the banking crisis, Scotland’s place in the Union and the UK’s place in Europe, as well as numerous speeches and articles linked to his role as United Nations special envoy for global education. To this weighty pile we must now add My Life, Our Times, a far more personal reckoning of his time as prime minister and a book that finds Mr Brown in a reflective and sometimes self-critical mood — especially on the personal shortcomings that prevented him from communicating his political vision effectively in a way that could connect with the ordinary British voter.

Source: The Times October 30, 2017 23:59 UTC