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Brown hands word down to assembly in Thatcher's wake
Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to address the Church of Scotland's General Assembly tomorrow – 20 years after Margaret Thatcher's controversial Sermon on The Mound.Mr Brown will attend the third day of the Kirk's annual gathering as a guest of George Reid, the Lord High Commissioner and former Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament.
In line with the convention for visiting prime ministers, he will be invited to speak to the assembled 800 clergy and elders.
Mr Brown has a long connection with the Church of Scotland, having grown up in the manse. His father, the late Rev Dr John Brown, was a minister in Dunoon, Glasgow, Kirkcaldy and Hamilton.
Full story at the Edinburgh Evening News.
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