Article: Yes, he's shown dire judgment but there's no evidence that Brown is half as bent as Blair; Natural integrity: Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his deputy leader Harriet Harman.

Byline: PETER OBORNE

GORDON BROWN has always struck me as a significantly morestraightforward and decent man than his wretched predecessor.

Tony Blair was congenitally deceitful, but he lied so fluently and with suchready charm that he escaped censure time and time again.

By contrast, there is a brooding honesty somewhere deep inside Gordon Brown.But this natural integrity is compounded by the fact that, perversely, when thePrime Minister occasionally tries to beguile the British publiche tends to mess up.

This explains the central paradox arising out of this week's astonishingevents. Although there is no evidence that Gordon Brown is ...

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