Seven Ways to Change the World: How To Fix The Most Pressing Problems We Face

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Photograph: Martin Argles/The Guardian Tony Blair applauds Gordon Brown’s speech at the 1999 Labour party conference in Bournemouth.

The summit serves as a kind of keystone for the book – an archetype of international cooperation in the face of collective danger. He acknowledges some of his mistakes, such as the debacle over the 10p tax band and failing to spot how reckless the banks had become in the run up to the Great Crash. Gordon Brown is renowned for preventing a second Great Depression in 2009 by mobilising global leaders to walk the world back from the financial brink. He was obsessed about it when he was plotting to supplant Blair; he remained obsessed even once he had prised him out; and he continues to be just as obsessed these many years later. We will have higher standards in public life, a wider spread of power and opportunity, and better economic growth that benefits everyone, wherever they are.And the more they talked, the more they realised that while past mistakes had set the world on this bumpy course, a better path leading to a brighter future exists. The paper praised Brown, saying he was "Miles ahead of anyone you can name currently in office at Westminster.

That may include the three authors of this book, which attempts to apply the lessons of the crisis to current problems.

He believes himself to be a politician “out of season” who did not master the revolution in communications and public expectations of leadership.