Philip Webster, Political Editor Gordon Brown sought to don the mantle of Churchill and Roosevelt yesterday as he called for world leaders to gather for a new Bretton Woods, the conference held in 1944 to draw up a postwar financial order. “First Britain, then Europe, now the world,” a Conservative frontbencher said, reflecting on Mr Brown’s new-found confidence as he tackled the financial crisis, making a plethora of speeches, press conference appearances and trips on the international stage. Only an hour after outlining his plan for a £37 billion public injection to rescue three British banks, Mr Brown turned his attention to reforming the world’s financial system. He told a City audience that there had to be “a new financial architecture for the years ahead”, with global supervision to match a world where money flowed...
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