Are there two Gordon Browns?

Are there two Gordon Browns? I only ask because Jackie Ashley's description of Gordon Brown in yesterday's Guardian Comment is Free ran thus:

"I say again, this is a principled, decent man, entirely uncorrupt" and in many ways a welcome relief from the high-kicking, look-at-me heyday of the Blairites.

A relief from the Blairites, I agree; but principled, decent and entirely uncorrupt?