“I wouldn’t be an academic, I like writing”, Brown tells John Humphries.
The prime minister points out that he has written six books* and worked as a journalist for a while. An interesting clue to the future – and a rebuttal to the common presumption that Brown might take up an academic post in the US after leaving Downing Street.
* For example “Courage: Eight Portraits”: readers on Amazon give it 2.5 stars out of 5.
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