Death of daughter was 'most grief-stricken time' of British PM's life
(NEWSER) - In an unguarded interview, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown talks frankly about the death of his newborn daughter, his wife's strength, and the deal he made with Tony Blair over Labour Party leadership. “Nobody actually really told us for a week, it just gradually dawned on us that something was going wrong and she wasn't getting bigger,” he says of Jennifer, born 7 weeks early in 2001, in an interview obtained by the Guardian . “She was baptized and we were with her and I held her and she died,” Brown says of his first child. More»