Vladimir Putin threatened him 16 years ago – as he towered over him wearing stacked heels’. From his raised position the 5ft 7ins Russian president read out details of the ex-PM’s private life from a series of index cards as though he wanted to prove that "he knew more about me than I knew about myself".
The extraordinary showdown happened during a 2006 visit to the Kremlin in Moscow while Brown – who is 3ins taller than the Russian ruler – was Chancellor of the Exchequer.
The former Prime Minister said the West had failed to stand up to Putin for years before his Ukraine invasion. Recalling his clash with the despot Brown, 71, said: "I was under no illusions about what Putin was like.
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.
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