Few could be worse than Browne. I'm just reading A Million Bullets and it mentions a couple of things he did when visiting the troops in Afghanistan. On one occasion he allegedly seemed to fall asleep in a briefing - which I've a little sympathy for, having seen many a visit hosted by the sycophantic middle management - but when meeting a group of recently bloodied troops, who had as usual been assembled just for his visit, he apparently stared at his feet, kicking a pebble, showing no interest in their exploits, and not even attempting to come up with a question to feign interest.
Browne was actually grey, a particularly dull politician who lacked even a trace of charisma, while his department asked - no relied upon - his people to do more and more, with increasingly less, interdispersed with his trite expressions of sympathy when those doing his bidding paid the ultimate price.
There are some politicians I dislike more than others - good riddance Browne.