Twelve years after leaving Downing Street, former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has returned to the limelight by leading a call for urgent government action on the cost of living crisis.
Brown, writing for The Observer, said Boris Johnson and his two Tory leadership candidates must agree to emergency measures this week. rice field.
Former Labor Party leader inThe Guardian and The Mirror and Sky News.
These Intervention is the man's most high-profile contribution in years, having served as PM from 2007 to 2010.
What has he been doing since No. 10?
2010 After Labour's defeat in the 2014 general election, Brown stepped down as leader and returned to the back bench, playing a leading role in the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendumand advocating Scottish Remain. In the UK.
On the eve of the poll, he gave a speech described by John Crace of The Guardian as "the performance of his life."
"Tomorrow we will give up sharing, shatter partnerships, abandon cooperation, and throw the idea of solidarity to pieces." Brown declared. Scotland voted in favor of staying in the UK.
He was heavily involved in the role of Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund after Dominic Strauss Khan retired in 2011, but the position was replaced by Moved to Christine Lagarde. Brown served in an unpaid advisory role at the World Economic Forum, was named the first prominent global leader by New York University, and was named the United Nations Special Envoy on Global Education. He has written the bookBeyond the Crash, discussing the 2008 financial crisis and his vision for future coordinated global action.
"A Tale of Revenge"
Now, with the cost of living crisis swirling, the "savior of the world" is about to step into this "unfortunate scene," says Esther Webber. Told. Politico's London Playbook. Brown has "a sort of revenge story," she said, "trying to seize the moment." 43}
Webber added that while his intervention "is aimed squarely at the Prime Minister and his successor", it is "not necessarily beneficial to Kiel Sturmer." ``While the Labor leader is on vacation, the crisis starts with saying 'no vacation'''.
Sky News Chief Political Correspondent Member John Craig agreed:
However, the Telegraph cited "one of the reasons the country is facing such a perilous winter" as "the former prime minister's decision to oversee the current government." It is unfit to dictate crisis management," he said, "a failure of the Labor government in which he was a prominent member for 13 years."
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