You dont really think he is going to do a personal interview and not talk about the death of his first born do you? It was, what, 10 minutes of the interview?
Its would be perverse in my opinion to do a personal interview covering the whole of your life and not talk about that.
There is an election this year and we have a leader of the opposition whose main tatic in the absence of any policy is to attack Brown on a personal level and present himself as a regular kind of guy. It would be madness not to try and counter that when personality is probably going to be brought into the arena of a close bitterly fought election.
I think its the height of cynicism to even suggest that Gordon Brown or any politician of any persuasion would use the death of a first born to help win votes. It dont surprise me though if it gets whispered though - this is going to be a bitter election becuase it is going to be closer than it should be with a government going for a fourth term and barely emerging from recession.
It is not the cards you are dealt but what you do with them that counts