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James Gordon Brown CH, HonFRSE (born 20 February 1951) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2010. He previously served as Chancellor of the Exchequer under Tony Blair from 1997 to 2007. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Dunfermline East from 1983 to 2005, and ...
Biography. Gordon Brown was born in Scotland and grew up in the industrial town of Kirkcaldy. He started at Edinburgh University aged 16, becoming the youngest fresher there since the war. It was ...
Gordon Brown is the United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Since September 2021, he also serves as WHO Ambassador for Global Health Financing . He served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2010 and is widely credited with preventing a second Great Depression through ...
e. Gordon Brown 's term as the prime minister of the United Kingdom began on 27 June 2007 when he accepted an invitation of Queen Elizabeth II to form a government, succeeding Tony Blair, and ended on 11 May 2010 upon his resignation. As prime minister, Brown served simultaneously as First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service ...
Aug 5, 2024 · Gordon Brown (born February 20, 1951, Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish-born British Labour Party politician who served as chancellor of the Exchequer (1997–2007) and prime minister of the United Kingdom (2007–10). At the time of his elevation to prime minister, he had been the longest continuously serving chancellor of the Exchequer since the 1820s.
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Apr 15, 2024 · Uh-oh, Gordon Brown wants to talk about my bed linen. “If you stay in a hotel, the laundry is usually not owned by the hotel. It’s rented from a laundry company.”. The pillowcases and sheets ...
Aug 8, 2022 · Gordon Brown 'seeing poverty I did not expect to see again' as he warns people will go hungry and cold within months. Former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown said he is campaigning heavily on ...
