| | By the Fall of 2008, Brown's premiership was increasingly seen as catastrophic by the country as a whole and his own party. Labour's opinion poll ratings dropped to historic lows, with widepread predictions of a Conservative landslide at the next General Election. The events of early October 2008, gained him new respect, though not necessarily popularity, as he exercised cool, firm international leadership in the midst of the banking crisis. Opinion polls show that Brown's popularity is significantly lower than that of his main opponent, [[David Cameron]], it is also alleged that he caused the "Credit crunch", the recession where the UK,supposedly owes more than HALF of their GDP, but local people say that no-one knows who we owe it to. | | By the Fall of 2008, Brown's premiership was increasingly seen as catastrophic by the country as a whole and his own party. Labour's opinion poll ratings dropped to historic lows, with widepread predictions of a Conservative landslide at the next General Election. The events of early October 2008, gained him new respect, though not necessarily popularity, as he exercised cool, firm international leadership in the midst of the banking crisis. Opinion polls show that Brown's popularity is significantly lower than that of his main opponent, [[David Cameron]], it is also alleged that he caused the "Credit crunch", the recession where the UK,supposedly owes more than HALF of their GDP, but local people say that no-one knows who we owe it to. |
| | + | In 2020, 10 years after leaving office, Gordon Brown called for a "[[global government]]" to end the [[CCP pandemic]].<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/mar/26/gordon-brown-calls-for-global-government-to-tackle-coronavirus Gordon Brown calls for global government to tackle coronavirus]</ref> |