Gordon Brown’s last letter from Downing Street
A personal, handwritten letter to the Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
By Samira Shackle Published 27 May 2010 13:26
The last letters that Gordon Brown wrote from inside No 10 were to Nelson Mandela and Aung San Suu Kyi. A friend of the former prime minister said that they are "two prisoners of conscience and two people who have inspired him hugely".
Here are his words to the Burmese leader.

This is one of the last letters I write as Prime Minister and I want it to be to you, to champion your cause for democracy in Burma and to say I will do everything I can to support you. You are, for me, what courage is and I will fight for you to be free and your people [to be] free.

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15 comments
Well congratulations on writing a noble letter and then leaking that you wrote a noble letter.
The bloke was, is and will remain - a total clown.
Gordon Brown's last letters were to people who inspired him and in doing so demonstrates why he inspired so many people. British politics is poorer for not having him in a prominent position.
Is it true Mandela and Aung San Suu Kyi then made complaints to their respective British embassies about the state of Brown's handwriting?
This letter sums up Mr Brown to me. A sincere, kind man who genuinely cares and wants to do good for the right reasons. i have no doubt now has has left the world of politics he will go on to do many noble things to improve the world. A great loss to us as a country though.
Great man, who never gained the respect he deserved!
He really is a great man. I believe his letter will be a great tonic for the lady who has been under house arrest for nearly one and a half decade.
Was Brown a woeful decision-maker, an inverted snob, a scorched earth instigator, a poor communicator now appearing illiterate, who may have been frustrated at recognising his own failings bringing bullying forth?
Should Brown, whose overdue departure was poorly instigated risking Britain's stability, ever have been PM?
Did Brown lose an election after the electorate woke up from its dreadful sleepwalk into Blairs wars where soldiers die from underfunding because of Brown? While, child abusers ran amok? When householders realised the nations indebtedness? After voters realised the economy was in tatters because of fiscal mismanagement by his government?
Should Brown have made himself and the nation part of the global cash crisis by letting Banks write their own rules and bluff his way through boom & bust?
Some might think that, but who is going to comment?
Mr Fastman. My apologies.
His final epitaph? 'He just didn't get the breaks'.
What a legend!
Bit late.
Dear me, Mr Frith. If your cynicism wasn't so lazy, i'd ask if it didn't tire you.
I'd rather imagined a wee note for the next occupant:
'There's nothing left'
Soon to feature in "Gordon: The Scorched Earth Years (about 13 of them)"
That letteer shows that Gordon Brown was a man with a heart and even at the sad time of his leaving No10 He thought of others who inspired him
This is much appreciated by all Burmese exiles who have now been waiting to return home for almost 50 years. It will percolate through the gravevine to those who suffer daily under the jackboot and provide sustenance for the struggle ahead.