The Prime Minister speaks exclusively to Premier
Gordon Brown speaks to Victoria Laurence about faith, the role he thinks Christianity has in our society, how Christians can engage with politics and what he's least proud of since becoming PM. Listen to the full interview and find out what the PM had to say.
And you can read all about Victoria's trip to number 10.
Living in London I have never really done the "tourist" thing. Standing outside the gates to Downing Street with hoards of people with cameras poised waiting for a glimpse of the leader of the country was never really high up on my "must do" list.
But I think it's fair to say most UK journalists would like the opportunity to interview the Prime Minister.
Now that IS something I can tick off the career "must do" list.
I interviewed Gordon Brown the week Parliament went off on its holidays. I was wondering how he would react to me given the fact he was at the end of what has been a pretty tough year for Labour, especially with the Party suffering its worst local election results in 40 years and, of course, the expenses scandal.
There are so many issues to interview a Prime Minister about: recession, Iraq, Afghanistan, troop fatalities, swine flu, expenses, schools, housing...the list can go on and on.
And Gordon Brown has given countless interviews and answered (or not) questions on the above subjects. In fact the day I went to interview him only two hours earlier he had given a 90 minute press conference where he was grilled on those very issues.
So as a journalist who is working for a Christian media company I wanted to speak to Mr Brown about matters concerning the Christian faith.
In other words, I wanted to give you something you couldn't get anywhere else.
I was given 15 minutes to interview Mr Brown, and I was also told what questions he wouldn't answer. I wasn't allowed to ask him about his own faith, his family, what he prays about or if he prays before making policy decisions.
Scrap first set of questions then....
However, there are still many issues Christians in the UK are concerned about that I could ask him: the fact many feel anti-Christian sentiment is increasing in Parliament, why talking about God is seen as dodgy territory for a British politician, and why many feel the government has become unbalanced in its approach to faith groups.
I also added a few questions to the mix in an attempt to find out what Gordon Brown really cares about.
And what I discovered was a very likeable man indeed. During the interview he came across as compassionate and he even admitted to his least proud moments as Prime Minister.
But don't take my word for it, listen for yourself and make your own mind up about the man, who, for the time being, has been entrusted with leading our country.
And I started off by asking him why he decided to get into politics...