Prime Minister Gordon Brown shared a very personal story about the despot. Back in February, when Russia first invaded Ukraine, Conservative MP Julian Lewis claimed, during a question in the House of Commons, that Putin was “firmly in the grip of small man syndrome”.
He also said that Putin had a “Napoleon complex”.Lewis said that this could be the reason why Putin ordered his troops to take to the streets of Ukraine.And now former Labour leader Brown, who served as the UK's Chancellor from 1997 to 2007 under then-PM Tony Blair, has shed some light on the realities of this rumour.Speaking to the Daily Telegraph's Celia Walden, he recalled a meeting between the pair in 2006.He said: “I first met Putin in 2006 at the Kremlin, when I was still Chancellor.“And I was put in a very low seat so that I was looking up at him.“He’s certainly a relatively small man, and he wears these stacked heels.“Anyway, that day he took out these index cards, and proceeded to read out all this information he had about me, as though he wanted to prove that he knew more about me than I knew about myself. “So when people say that Putin’s changed and is only now threatening, I can tell you that he was threatening me even then.” Putin's height isn't the only talking point when it comes to the despotic leader.
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