Reproaches from the Past
Peter Clarke
- The Prudence of Mr Gordon Brown by William Keegan
Wiley, 356 pp, £18.99, October 2003, ISBN 0 470 84697 6
It’s an odd job with an odd title. When the G7 meet there is only one chancellor of the exchequer in the room – other countries make do somehow with a finance minister or a secretary of the treasury – so a nod towards history is plainly needed by way of explanation. It seems that the present definition of the office was established through a process long characterised by ambiguity as well as ambition, with a premium on stealth as well as wealth.
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