Gordon Brown’s great disruption

28 August 2025, The Tablet

Gordon Brown has a strong faith after growing up a son of the manse in Fife, where he still lives

PA, Dominic Lipinski

Tablet features – Faith in politics

Languishing in the polls amid incoherence over its policies and identity, Labour has no choice now but to pursue a more authentic course. Brown’s proposals clearly enjoy considerable support among faith leader friends and allies. Rachel Reeves is supposedly listening. Whether she heeds Brown’s guidance in her autumn Budget may well impact on her political survival – and ultimately that of this transient government and even the Labour party itself, which Brown has served for five decades.

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