Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury, and Minister for the Civil Service James Gordon Brown of United Kingdom

Much was made of the differences between the two men, though Brown remains a supporter of the centre-left 'New' Labour ideology in which socialism plays no part.

James Gordon Brown was born in Govan, Glasgow and raised in Kirkcaldy, Scotland by his parents, John and Elizabeth.

Brown was elected to parliament on the second attempt in 1983, representing the safe Scottish Labour seat of Dunfermline East.

Brown was later awarded a post in Neil Kinnock's Labour Opposition party, speaking on trade and industry matters.

Brown was an early contender to lead the Labour Party in 1994 following the sudden death of John smith.

Away from political speculation, Brown was forced to confront a number of difficult issues in his first 90 days as Prime Minister, while at the same time developing a range of policy proposals which he would set out at the 2007 Labour Party Conference on 25th September.

BBC News: 'Brown is UK's new prime minister.

Brown has announced a new ministerial code which sets out clear standards of behaviour for ministers.

First involved in politics when at Edinburgh University when he was elected as the first student Rector, Brown was elected to Parliament in 1983 and shared an office with Tony Blair where they formed a political partnership.

Brown said "outmost", as spelled on the BBC News transcript, but other sources usually give "utmost.

Brown is known for his devotion to his job, his long working hours, his gloomy demeanor, and his certainty in his own judgment.

James Gordon Brown was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of a Church of Scotland minister.

In 1983 Brown was elected a Labour Party member of Parliament (MP), representing Dunfermline East in Scotland.

Blair stated it would be the last time he would run as party leader, and Brown was widely assumed to be his successor.

College of Technology before working as a journalist at Scottish Television.

After the sudden death of John Smith, Brown was one of those tipped as a potential party leader.

relationship between Blair and Brown has been central to the fortunes of "New Labour", and they have mostly remained united in public despite reported serious private rifts.

Many British political commentators have stated that Gordon Brown was appointed Chancellor as the result of a power brokerage agreement with Tony Blair.

vision for leadership and global change.

having used the failure of the Labour Party to advance his own cause for the leadership.

Gordon Brown has decreed that the UK economy will start to grow again in the 3rd Quarter 2009.

Brown was born on February 20, 1951, in Glasgow and bought up in Kirkcaldy, where his father was a Church of Scotland minister.

On the sudden death of the party leader John Smith in 1992, Brown was widely regarded as a leading candidate to succeed him, as was the shadow home secretary Tony Blair.

Following the Labour victory of May 1997, and four days after his appointment as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Brown took the bold move of passing responsibility for setting interest rates to the Bank of England.

In other respects, however, Brown was a more cautious Chancellor.

Although he was not officially given responsibility for the 2005 general election campaign, Brown came to play a central role in Labour’s re-election, not least because his tenure as Chancellor of the Exchequer, during which economic growth had been sustained, inflation kept low, and public spending increased, became the keystone of the Labour campaign.

Furthermore, Tony Blair had already stated that this would be the last general election he would contest as party leader, and Gordon Brown was widely assumed to be his most likely successor.

UK,United Kingdom- 5 hours agoGordon Brown has insisted the Government will not be complacent after Baroness Vadera, the Business Minister and one of his closest allies, was criticised.

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After Labour's landslide victory in 1997, Blair became prime minister, and Brown was named chancellor of the Exchequer.

Brown has a PhD in history from the University of Edinburgh and spent his early career working as a TV journalist.

Brown has also suffered as a result of investigations into improper party donation accusations, a costly political battle over 42 day detention and heavy by-election defeats, notably Glasgow East.

Despite an initial increase in personal and Labour popularity following his appointment as Leader and PM, Brown has presided over a dramatic decline in poll approval ratings personally and for the party.

Gordon Brown was born in Govan, Glasgow, Scotland.

Having led the Labour Movement Yes campaign, refusing to join the cross-party Yes for Scotland campaign, during the 1979 Scottish devolution referendum, while other senior Labour politicians - including Robin Cook, Tam Dalyell and Brian Wilson - campaigned for a No vote, Brown was subsequently a key participant in the Scottish Constitutional Convention, signing the Claim of Right for Scotland in 1989.

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Brown was the son of John Brown, a Labour Partysupporting Church of Scotland minister, and Elizabeth Brown.

In 1974 Brown had helped organize the parliamentary campaign to elect Robin Cook, who would later serve in government with Brown as foreign minister (19972001) and leader of the House of Commons (200103.

In 1992, following Labours fourth successive electoral defeat, Brown was named shadow chancellor of the Exchequer by John Smith, then the Labour Party leader.

Brown was widely regarded as the senior half of the Blair-Brown partnership and the one more likely to eventually become party leader.

Brown was subsequently reappointed by Blair as Labours shadow chancellor.

Brown was subsequently named chancellor of the Exchequer, and he swiftly took control of almost all policies concerned with the United Kingdoms domestic economy.

Brown had a strong interest in international economics; he served as the United Kingdoms governor of the International Monetary Fund and as chair of the organizations primary decision-making committee and was instrumental in brokering a European agreement in 2005 that would double foreign aid to developing countries.

The relationship between Blair and Brown had grown somewhat strained, with many loyal to Blair claiming that Browns supporters had been undermining Blairs leadership for several years (indeed, in June 2007 a leaked document surfaced showing that Blair had considered removing Brown as chancellor of the Exchequer after the 2005 election.

In 2000 Brown married Sarah Macaulay.

In Britain, Brown is seen as being a more sombre, sober and serious figure in contrast to Tony Blair, who is regarded as charismatic and has at times been perceived as lightweight and as an overly "slick" media performer (not unlike Bill Clinton.

Brown was one of the longest serving Chancellors in history, and took credit for the consistently healthy state of the British economy during his tenure - credit which many are reassessing in light of the current (as of October 2008) perilous condition of the British economy.

Undoubtedly it will be a high priority, Brown said recalling the astonishing speed of change and progress in India as it claims its rightful place in the emerging new world order.

Brown is the longest serving Chancellor of Exchequer for 200 years.

Brown has publicly gushed about the friendship Paul has shown to US over the years.

Brown has just finished a book dedicated to his first-born child in order to raise money for charity.

Brown has written several books, including a biography (1986) of the socialist parliamentarian James Maxton, Where There Is Greed: Margaret Thatcher and the Betrayal of Britain's Future (1989), and Fair is Efficient: A Socialist Agenda for Fairness (1994.

The son of a cleryman, Gordon Brown was born in Glasgow, educated in Kirkcaldy and followed by the University of Edinburgh, where became the second student ever to be elected Rector (1972-5.

However, Brown has gained a reputation as dictatorial and his complex relationship with Tony Blair (b.

A career in politics for James Gordon Brown was inevitable.

In 1983, at the age of 32, Brown was elected as a Member of Parliament.

Where Brown was described as dour, complex, and bad in social situations, Blair was the boisterous schoolboy who was nearly expelled for being cheeky.

Gordon Brown took the job as Chancellor of the Exchequer, a post equivalent to Secretary of the Treasury.

The estimated loss generated by this action was in the vicinity of 4 billion, which, along with many other failed economic policies, inspired the following question to be posted recently on an Internet poll: Has Gordon Brown killed the goose that lays the golden eggs and cooked his own at the same time? Gordon Brown is clearly not the financial version of Yoda, scoffed one participant in the comments section.

Wanting to demonstrate the common touch, Brown took the London Underground all around town to meet with supporters.

For his part, Brown says he plans visits to Afghanistan and Iraq as soon as possible to listen and learn.

To be fair, Brown has more than one reason to take swipes at Blair.

Access to Brown comes through Sue Nye who not only schedules Brown and picks out his ties, but helps him shape his ideas on major issues.

On the other hand, to assuage the left, Brown has hinted that he might be open to forming a coalition government by inviting strong participation by members of the Liberal Democrats (who are Old Labour by default.

Thus Gordon Brown has expressed the hope to write a 21st century constitution for Britain with specific delineations of the rights and responsibilities of all citizens and spell out, in modern terms, the roles of the three branches of government.

Brown is described as an Atlanticist rather than a Europhile, which means that if Tony Blair gives away more of the shop to the EU, it would hamstring Browns power as Prime Minister.

Tory Leader David Cameron has predicted that this yawning power gap -- while Blair holds on as long as possible and Brown finds his feet -- will paralyze the nation and calls the whole transition period the government of the living dead.

Gordon Brown has written articles published in The Independent, The Guardian, The Mirror, The Sun, The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Observer, The Sunday Mirror, The Sunday Telegraph and Financial Times.

University Court, and edited "The Red Paper on Scotland.

3 August 2000 after a four-year courtship.

Macaulay, the consultancy firm she owned with Julia Hobsbawm.

most influential people in the world.

serious rivals for the position as the next Prime Minister.

Brown remains the only candidate spoken of seriously in Westminster.

Gordon BrownRelations - News and ArticlesJames Gordon Brown is the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom and a Labour Party politician.

Labour Party in the 1997 general election.

Brown is the 56-year-old son of a Church of Scotland preacher who combines academic rigor — he entered Edinburgh University at 16 — with the rough and tumble of a lifelong political career that started in the Scottish Labor Party.

Brown has promised a switch from the celebrity overtones of the Blair era to a more stalwart aura.

Brown said in an interview published in The Guardian last month.

Brown was at the prime minister’s side through three election victories and, as chancellor of the Exchequer, wielded enormous power over swelling public spending and soaring tax bills.

Brown was expecting a transfer of power relatively soon in Labor’s ascendancy.

Brown has hinted that he will seek to move away from Mr.

Brown has made it clear that he will oppose any moves toward Scottish independence from Britain.

James Brown was also a skilled carpenter, a bit of a practical joker, and he knew his way around any fishing hole.

In his lifetime, Gregory Brown said no one has ever said or heard a bad thing mentioned about his father.

From an academic to the prime minister, James Gordon Brown has come a long way to occupy the top post of Britain, capping his 24-year chequered career in politics.

As chancellor of Exchequer for 10 years prior to his new assignment, Brown is credited with steering Britain's economic growth with firm measures earning him the title of 'Iron Chancellor.

After the death of the then Labour party chief John Smith in 1994, Brown was tipped to take charge.

On terrorism, Brown has pledged to work with India in a coherent global front to "stand full square against all terrorism and murderous extremists who practice it.

1951 - Gordon Brown was born in Govan, in Glasgow, Scotland on the 20th of February.

1972 - While still a student, Brown was elected Rector of the University of Edinburgh, the convener of the University Court.

1983 - Brown was elected to Parliament on his second attempt as a Labour MP for Dunfermline East in general election and became opposition spokesman on Trade and Industry.

1987-1989 - Brown was Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury and then Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry.

Gordon Brown was born in Govan, Glasgow, Scotland, although media have occasionally given his place of birth as Giffnock, Renfrewshire, where his parents were living at the time.

Brown was educated first at Kirkcaldy West Primary School where he was selected for an experimental fast stream education programme, which took him two years early to Kirkcaldy High School for an academic hothouse education taught in separate classes.

In 1972, while still a student and with strong connections with the previous Dean of Admissions, Brown was elected Rector of the University of Edinburgh, the convener of the University Court.

Brown was denied a permanent post at Edinburgh due to his previous political activism as a student.

Gordon Brown was elected to Parliament on his second attempt as a Labour MP for Dunfermline East in 1983 general election and became opposition spokesman on Trade and Industry in 1985.

After the sudden death of Labour leader John Smith in May 1994, Brown was tipped as a potential party leader, but did not contest the leadership after Tony Blair became favourite.

Brown was the clear favourite to succeed Blair for several years with experts and the bookmakers; he was the only candidate spoken of seriously in Westminster.

Brown is the first prime minister from a Scottish constituency since the Conservative/SUP Sir Alec Douglas-Home in 1964.

From January 2007 the media reported Brown had now "dropped any pretence of not wanting, or expecting, to move into Number 10 in the next few months" – although he and his family will likely use the more spacious 11 Downing Street.

Brown has proposed moving some traditional prime ministerial powers conferred by royal prerogative to the realm of Parliament, such as the power to declare war and approve appointments to senior positions.

Constitutional reform Brown has not stated whether he proposes a US.

Brown has said he will give Parliament the final say on whether British troops are sent into action in future.

Brown said he wants to release more land and ease access to ownership with shared equity schemes.

Brown remains committed to the Iraq War, but said in a speech in June 2007 that he would "learn the lessons" from the mistakes made in Iraq.

Brown married Sarah Macaulay in a private ceremony at his home in North Queensferry, Fife, on 3 August 2000.

since Nicholas Vansittart (1812-1823.

rivals for the position as the next Prime Minister.

spoken of seriously in Westminster.

University, Mr Brown is nothing if not complicated.

James Gordon Brown is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

But by 1994, Brown had moved sufficiently to the right for him to author "Financing Infrastructure Investment" with Labour party colleagues Robin Cook and John Prescott.

Brown has had a long and extremely close association with the controversial Labour MP and multi-millionaire, Geoffrey Robinson.

When Robinson resigned his shadow cabinet post in 1986 to start TransTec, Brown took his place.

A year before he succeeded Blair, Gordon Brown had already signalled his support for Tony Blair's desire for a new generation of nuclear power stations, letting it be known that there was.

Gordon Brown is to face down sceptics in his party and give the go-ahead for a new generation of nuclear power stations, which will be built across the country.

As of April 2007, Brown was still at the company: he sat in on an interview with EDF boss Vincent de Rivaz.

He had just returned from Nigeria and was telling me that if we will not provide free education, then religious extremists are going to – but only education that preaches hatred,' Mr Brown said at a meeting organised by Oxfam and Unison.

Brown takes top EDF UK media job", PR Week, September 17, 2004.

Blair took office and Brown became Chancellor of the Exchequer, but as the years passed and Blair remained on the job, Brown was said to be increasingly impatient for his turn.

Brown has also authored books, including the political biographies Maxton (1986, about Socialist leader James Maxon), John Smith: Life and Soul of the Party (1994), and Courage (2003.

Brown has no sight in his left eye, the result of a rugby injury while he was a university student; after a series of unsuccessful operations, his eye was replaced with an artificial eye.

Brown married for the first time in 2000, to the former Sarah Macaulay.

Even before entering Parliament Brown had achieved some renown, being elected Rector of Edinburgh University whilst still a student there, and editing The Red Paper on Scotland.

After the sudden death of John Smith, Brown was tipped as a potential party leader, but he stepped aside and allowed Tony Blair to become leader.

Whether this is true or not, the relationship between Blair and Brown has been central to the fortunes of "New Labour", and they have by and large remained united in public despite reported rifts.

This action, together with the increase in the tax share of national income on a cyclically adjusted basis, accounts for the recurrent accusations that Brown has faced of imposing "stealth taxes.

Brown has headed HM Treasury since May 1997, making him the longest continuously serving Chancellor since Nicholas Vansittart (1812-1823.

Before entering Parliament and while still a student, Brown was elected Rector of Edinburgh University and Chairman of the University Court; he also edited The Red Paper on Scotland.

Brown was Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 1987 to 1989 and then Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, before becoming Shadow Chancellor in 1992.

After the sudden death of John Smith in May 1994, Brown was one of those tipped as a potential party leader.

Whether this is true or not, the relationship between Blair and Brown has been central to the fortunes of "New Labour", and they have mostly remained united in public, despite reported, serious, private rifts.

Brown has increased the tax thresholds in line with inflation, rather than earnings, which rise more quickly during periods of economic growth.

Brown has changed tax policy in other ways, such as the working tax credits.

Brown has pointed to two main accomplishments: growth and employment.

In October 1997, Brown took control of the United Kingdom's membership of the European single currency issue by announcing the Treasury would set five economic tests to ascertain whether the economic case had been made.

Brown has been a supporter of Third World debt reduction for some time.

Brown has been the clear favourite to succeed Blair for several years and remains so with experts and the bookmakers; he is one of the few candidates spoken of seriously in Westminster.

After the UK Local Government elections in May 2006, where Labour lost two-fifths of the councils they previously controlled, Brown has been accused of having used the failure of the Labour Party to advance his own cause for the leadership.

Brown was also "deluded", he said, to think that Blair can and should anoint him as his successor now.

Gordon Brown was shadow chancellor when the presenter Sue Lawley asked: "People want to know whether you're gay or whether there's some flaw in your personality that you haven't made a relationship.

Brown was played by David Morrissey in the Stephen Frears directed TV movie The Deal.

Brown married Sarah Macaulay at his home in North Queensferry, Fife, on 3 August 2000 after a four-year courtship.

Brown has two brothers: John Brown, Head of Public Relations in the Glasgow City Council and Andrew Brown, a PR consultant for the French-owned utility company EDF Energy.

Brown received honorary degrees from Edinburgh University in 2003 and Newcastle University in 2007 (DCL.