Dr Gordon Brown?

According to the BBC website:

The chancellor [of the exchequer, Gordon Brown] took his O-levels when he was just 14 and his Highers - the Scottish equivalent of A-levels - the following year.  By the time he was 20 he had a first class degree in History from Edinburgh University, where he went on to complete a PhD.

So, not only is Brown extremely bright, and driven, he has a doctorate and could refer to himself as Dr Gordon Brown.  So how come I didn't know this previously, but do now?  It couldn't be anything to do with the perceived threat to his ambition posed by the doctored John Reid, could it?

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[SianB]

His PhD thesis was on the history of the Labour Party. Probably not the sort of doctorate worth boasting about.