Vengeful, Brooding and Secretive - Will Brown Become Our Own Nixon? ; the PM's Modus Operandi, as Revealed by the Damian McBride Affair, Has Troubling Parallels with That of Richard Nixon, Says One Historian [Edition 2]

Sandbrook, Dominic, The Evening Standard (London, England)

LESS than two weeks after one of the high points of his premiership, the G20 summit, Gordon Brown finds himself caught up in a scandal that encapsulates the grubbiest side of politics. Yet like all truly memorable political scandals, the Damian McBride email furore is important for what it reveals about the culture at the heart of government, and about the enduring psychological flaws of the man the smears were meant to benefit.

That man -- the Prime Minister -- is, in the process, looking increasingly like the Richard Nixon of British politics.

Gordon Brown's admirers have long claimed that he resembled one of the iconic American presidents of the last century: as …

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Publication information: Article title: Vengeful, Brooding and Secretive - Will Brown Become Our Own Nixon? ; the PM's Modus Operandi, as Revealed by the Damian McBride Affair, Has Troubling Parallels with That of Richard Nixon, Says One Historian [Edition 2]. Contributors: Sandbrook, Dominic - Author. Newspaper title: The Evening Standard (London, England). Publication date: April 15, 2009. Page number: 15. © Not available. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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