"Though his name is against many of the payments, it is thought the
bills were paid by the offices of the chancellor and the prime
minister, rather than by Brown himself."


http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/nov/04/gordon-brown-speeches-west-wing-writers
"In March 2008 West Wing Writers received $9,810.50 from Brown for
editing one speech. Three weeks later Brown gave an address at the
John F Kennedy memorial library in Boston urging the US and Europe to
join forces against global terrorism.

In addition to those speeches, when Brown was chancellor West Wing
Writers edited speeches to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the
United Nations, the Council on Foreign Relations, a comment piece
published in the Washington Post, and other works, documents show."



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