Letter: Different Brown?

I WAS taken aback to hear Gordon Brown berate the British press for being "politicised" and for daring to challenge politicians' motives and integrity (your report, 15 August)

Could this be the same Gordon Brown whose spokesman, Charlie Whelan, was forced to resign after he was founding trashing Peter Mandelson in leaks to the press?

Whose special adviser, Damian McBride, was caught publishing sleaze and innuendo on the internet about Brown's political rivals in the Labour Party?

Whose election campaign manager, Derek Draper, posted personal smears about David and Samantha Cameron in the LabourList? Perhaps this is another Gordon Brown, equipped with moral compass and righteous indignation, ready to redeem the world from spin and sin.

(Dr) John Cameron

Howard Place

St Andrews