Letter: Brown's triumph

I am surprised by the vitriolic attacks on Gordon Brown in your letters page (5 November). He gave us ten years of booming economy, high employment and low inflation - more than any other Chancellor has ever succeeded in doing.

If he and Alistair Darling had not acted quickly to recapitalise the banks almost every business and person in the UK would have been bankrupt. He did make a serious mistake though, trusting business to regulate itself, a process started by Margaret Thatcher. I hope no government will ever make that mistake again.

Mike Underwood

Friars Brae

Linlithgow