Former PM Gordon Brown rules out return to frontline politics
FORMER Prime Minister Gordon Brown has ruled out a return to frontline politics in the aftermath of the referendum.
Supporters had hoped he would be tempted into a more prominent role following his involvement in the campaign to keep Britain together.
During the campaign, he said Alex Salmond’s “deceptions” over the future of the NHS moved him to consider a return.
I'm too old to be the comeback kid
And he hinted at a return as he launched a bid to shore up support for the Union among Scottish pensioners.
But speaking in his Fife constituency, he ruled out standing for Holyrood, saying he is “too old to be the comeback kid” and “too young to be an elder statesman”.
Mr Brown described the referendum as the “longest campaign we have seen in modern history” and asked both sides to “throw away” their Yes and No posters and work together.
He said that after “all the acrimony, after much which I think is distasteful, the abuse, insults, intimidation and threats” it was now time to find unity.