PREMIUM -- ** FILE ** Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown speaks at the 'Financing Clean Energy Conference' in The City in London in this Tuesday March 13 2007 file photo. Gordon Brown, the likely next prime minister of Britain, displayed a "Stalinist ruthlessness" in running the Treasury department, a former civil servant said in an interview published Tuesday March 20, 2007. Andrew Turnbull, who was the senior civil servant at the Treasury from 1998 to 2002, said Brown has a "very cynical view of mankind and his colleagues." (AP Photo/Stefan Rousseau, Pool)