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Brown gets all emotional over Glasgow
Former prime minister Gordon Brown speaking at a Scottish Labour rally for the NHS at the Lighthouse in Glasgow
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GORDON BROWN, texture like sun. The former PM certainly had more colour in his cheeks in Glasgow yesterday than when I crossed paths with him during the 2010 general election.
Marking the 70th birthday of the NHS, he recalled how Edinburgh had marked the start of free healthcare rather differently to its cousin on the Clyde. In Glasgow, socialists raised the red flag, he said — whereas the capital held a memorial service for the voluntary and philanthropic organisations that the NHS put out of business.
Brown roared: “Glasgow knew how to celebrate the NHS then, and it still does today!”
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