Gordon Brown's Mistake in Making the Bank of England Independent

I think there were other factors to explain it, which are troubling for those who claim to be on the center ground because it wasn't a centrist's election. The Tories were moving back to a sort of interesting one nation conservatism and combining it with a pledge to deliver the Brexit referendum. Labour was close to a more Northern European manifesto, as Raphael Bear said,. It was not that much more left than the SDP manifesto in 1983. Mike Middleton: Did Gordon Brown make a mistake in making the Bank of England independent? I don't think it's true. Let's trust tried to blame him partly for what was going on, which does raise the question.