Brown laps up US reporter

Jeremy Paxman would’ve been bursting at home, smashing his coffee mug into the TV screen and shouting “stop him, stop him!”

I honestly don’t think the Prime Minister had ever spoken so long uninterrupted during an interview.

Sky have just finished showing Brown talking with a CNN reporter in front of a room of journalists at the World Economic Forum.

Back home the PM would’ve been sneered at from the start, blamed and challenged – or ‘held accountable’ as they say.

But this interviewer was an American and more of a cat rubbing herself on the PM’s ankles than an attack dog.

She gave him as much time to answer as he wanted – let him roam.

He started by saying how the world economic crisis reminded him of a story about Titian.

Moments later he was discussing the Latin root of the word credit.

Then there was a little anecdote about a meeting of European economists back in the thirties.

I must admit missing the end of the story because I was too busy trying to dodge the PM’s head, now expanding out of the television.

People actually clapped his answers – at a press conference.

And when they did a little sparkle in his eye revealed his thought – “I really did save the world.”