It did but it expanded hugely in the Labour years. Even though the NAO was regularly pointing out what poor value it was. (View Post)

Don't forget the love of using PFI. Another great gift to the country from Brown. (View Post)

So apart from catastrophically bad financial regulation, an unchecked housing boom and bust, and a huge amount of poor value PFI to make UK government debt look better Gordon Brown was a pretty good … (View Post)

Putting out a fire that you are in part responsible for is not praiseworthy. (View Post)

Brown gets criticised because he changed UK banking regulation with the creation of the FSA (a huge but almost entirely useless organisation) which let so many UK banks get into a mess in the first p… (View Post)