Melissa Kite, deputy political editor of the [UK] Guardian, reports that Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s eyesight is causing concern among his aides. “There is mounting anecdotal evidence that Mr. Brown is battling a serious disability,” she wrote.

Brown lost the vision in one eye after a rugby accident as a teenager, and recently said in an interview that he has been having increasing problems with the other eye. He recently had a cataract removed. An excerpt:

The Prime Minister’s close friends have revealed that he can only see extremely large print and has needed guidance at public events. There were suggestions that if Mr Brown falls or bumps into something his damaged retina could fail and he would go blind completely.

(Telegraph photo)

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