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In seventeen days, Gordon Brown will become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. On today's programme, we discussed his distinctive approach to faith, and how religious commitments are likely to shape his tenure, with the writer and broadcaster Johnston McKay and Tom Brown, one of Mr Brown's personal friends. In a recent piece in the Independent, examined Brown's belief system and concluded thus:

So Gordon Brown's God is cantankerous and ambiguous. At His best, He likes to help the poor and hates hereditary privilege. At His worst, He likes dividing His flock into schools where He will be worshiped fulsomely in His many different guises. This God is alternately encouraging and disturbing - but we cannot understand our next Prime Minister without Him.