Dark and brooding: Gordon Brown sees himself as Bronte's Heathcliff
Updated on 10 July 2008
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has compared himself to the dark and brooding Heathcliff from the Emily Brontë novel Wuthering Heights
Gordon Brown has said comparisons of him with the dark and brooding character Heathcliff in the novel "Wuthering Heights" are "absolutely correct".
He made the comments in an interview in the New Statesman adding that maybe he was "an older Heathcliff, a wiser Heathcliff". The character, well known for his tempestuous nature, was immortalised by Laurence Olivier in 1939.
This isn't the first time the PM has been compared to a fictional character. During Prime Minister's Questions the acting Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable described him as transforming from "Stalin to Mr Bean".
