BBC Ten'o'clock News 10 May 2007 

I think he is the luckiest PM. a) became party leader after the death of John Smith b) became party leader after a government had been in power for 15 years and was in self destruction mode. c) had no effective opposition facing him d) won an election (2005) with just 35% of the vote. e) got out before it went all awry with economy.

I think that he would've been looked back on a lot more fondly without Iraq but in my mind labour was ultimately always going to lose after the recession.

@@KevinBradshaw1972 you dont win 3 uk general elections in a row by luck. The fact of the matter is with him labour did something it hadnt done for years before he became leader - won elections. And since he stepped down theyve lost every election

@@elerillewellyn2654 I don't think so. Brown lost in 2010 because of that whole Gillian Duffy thing which I agreed with him on but the PM shouldn't be calling someone a bigot while his mic is on. But also he failed to debunk the bullshit claims that Labour was responsible for a world wide financial crisis that began in America. Blair would likely have been able to argue against this. Hey Brown was a good chancellor he was a shit PM. Speaking of the 2008 global crash why didn't Labour point out that the Tories have caused recessions too like in the 90's.

That seems to be the thing people hound him about, so I wonder if it could be true, as if there's nothing else.