Forewords

International audienceAs Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1997 and then Prime Minister from June 2007 to May 2010, Gordon Brown was in charge of economic policy in a time that proved the longest period of economic expansion in the UK’s history. Posing as the champion of macro-financial prudence, he was once unanimously praised for turning the UK into one of the OECD’s top performers—until the turnaround in the UK’s economic fortunes. The financial crisis which erupted in the summer of 2007 and the ensuing downturn..