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^compare with Jackie Ashley's column in the guardian (she was no Brown fan):
It could hardly have been done better. Behind the mask of anger, and the caricature monster hated by the press, there has always been a better Brown, a gentler and nicer man. Now, so late, we saw better Brown saying goodbye.
My guess, as he left with Sarah and his boys, is that he may do very well in his post-Westminster life. Not for him, I think, the super-paid speeches, the executive jets and the swank, but books and good works. My guess is that one day, the country may yet warm to this man.