Gordon Brown Reviews His Blueprint for Countering Populism

The Future Starts With Us by Gordon Brown review – the ex-PM’s recipe for beating populism

Global crises are tightly linked to how we treat each other at the local level, argues this optimistic book In times of crisis, there is one person to whom the left still turns for guidance. More than a decade and a half after leaving government, Gordon Brown has mellowed into the Labour party’s favourite wise elder; one who has never disappointed the faithful by going off to make a ton of money, remaining quietly committed to public service and deeply engaged with the world’s knottier probl...

By Gaby Hinsliff