Merchant adventurer

New Statesman | January 28, 2008| | Copyright

As he toured China and India, flogging Britain as the ultimate capitalist destination, Gordon Brown dispensed with any ethical values and returned foreign policy to mercantile Elizabethan times. By Tristram Hunt

The irony was delicious: Gordon Brown, Labour party leader and one-time editor of the socialist Red Paper on Scotland, and Wen Jiabao, premier of the People's Republic of China, standing side by side in the Great Hall of the People discussing how best to invest Beijing's £100bn sovereign wealth fund in the City of London. Accompanied by Sir Richard Branson, the director of the CBI ...

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