Brown's career was dead before that though.
It was also widely expected that he would lose - his constituency was originally a combination of small industrial towns, market towns and countryside, but the delicate balance had been upset by the movement of many middle class Derby residents into new suburbs located in the seat: by 1970 the electorate was just shy of 87,000 - a decade earlier it had been 70,000. His majority in 1966 was his smallest ever (6.6%) and that was with a big win for Labour nationally.
