LONDON:Gordon Brown, Former Labour leader has been named the third worst prime minister since World War II, a survey by more than 100 leading academics revealed.
According to The Sun, academics led by University of Leeds Professor Kevin Theakston rated him tenth out of the 12 post-war premiers, ahead of Sir Anthony Eden and Sir Alec Douglas-Home, two men who have long been associated with failure.
They were being polled on how much the nation's leaders achieved while in No 10.
Brown's only real success was his action to prop up the banks during the credit crisis. Building up record government debt is seen as his biggest failure. He was also slated for bottling a general election in 2007, the paper states.
The poll rated Labour's post-war Prime Minister Clement Attlee, architect of the National Health Service (NHS), easily topped the poll with a score of 8.1. He is followed by Margaret Thatcher, who scored 6.9, while Tony Blair came next to her with 6.4 score.
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