I think you will find the FSA took responsibility for this one.
I agree that he did not balance the books well enough, spent too much on defence, education and health. As for the gold reserves, they were sold for market price at the time, which is all that can be expected. If they had not been...
As much as I have little time for either Gordon Brown, not sure how he was responsible for the Lehman Brothers collapse that precipitated the financial crisis.