Gordon Brown: A hero or a zero?

From: The Daily Mail (London, England) | Date: October 9, 2007 | Copyright information

GORDON BROWN backed off from a General Election because it looked asthough the Conservatives were on the rebound. For those who want to remove thisGovernment, that was a welcome decisiona snap election really could have gone either way.

The longer Mr Brown waits, the more obvious it will become that he isn't aleader but a follower, and has no charisma, no innovation and no direction. MrCameron has proven himself a man to be reckoned with and for the first time ina long t...

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