Brown's new-look Treasury

18th January 2008
By Colin Thaine & Ross Christie

On that bright June afternoon when Gordon Brown finally left for the palace to become prime minister and First Lord of the Treasury, there was a touching scene at the Treasury building on Horse Guards Road — most Treasury officials turned out on the balconies to cheer him on his way. Of those officials, three-quarters had not known any other boss. Symbolically, even the building had changed under his chancellorship, with a major PFI-project completed in 2002 replacing the crumbling, yel…