SIR – As a Labour party member I recognise that Gordon Brown was no angel.

Having spent 13 years at the top of British politics there is a lot to account for.

But Councillor [Francis] Lankester’s letter (Worcester News, May 25) is typical of the politics that seems to emanate from the Conservative party and as usual chooses to ignore specifics that do not support their argument.

I am alluding to the world banking financial crisis.

Before this the UK had an a balanced economy.

When the crisis hit it was not a debt crisis but a banking crisis.

There is worldwide recognition that Gordon Brown was central to saving the world economy.

Alan Greenspan (US federal reserve chairman) said that Brown is without peer among the world’s economic policymakers.

All politicians, even those we dislike, are capable of objective achievements which it is churlish not to acknowledge.

The Prime Minister’s disdainful treatment of his predecessor in publicly rejecting him as managing director of the IMF showed the hypocrisy of a man who was a special adviser to Norman Lamont on Black Wednesday in the 1990s.

RICHARD BOORN
Worcester