Gordon Brown
Politician
1951 –
Who is Gordon Brown?
James Gordon Brown is a British Labour Party politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 until 2010. He previously served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Labour Government from 1997 to 2007. Brown has been a Member of Parliament since 1983, first for Dunfermline East and currently for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath.
A doctoral graduate of the University of Edinburgh, Brown spent his early career working as both a lecturer at a further education college and a television journalist. He entered Parliament in 1983 as the MP for Dunfermline East. He joined the Shadow Cabinet in 1989 as Shadow Secretary of State for Trade, and was later promoted to become Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1992. After Labour's victory in 1997, he was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, becoming the longest-serving holder of that office in modern history.
Brown's time as Chancellor was marked by major reform of Britain's monetary and fiscal policy architecture, transferring interest rate setting powers to the Bank of England, by a wide extension of the powers of the Treasury to cover much domestic policy and by transferring responsibility for banking supervision to the Financial Services Authority. Controversial moves included the abolition of advance corporation tax relief in his first budget, and the removal in his final budget of the 10% "starting rate" of personal income tax which he had introduced in 1999. In 2007, Tony Blair resigned as Prime Minister and Labour Leader and Brown was chosen to replace him in an uncontested election.
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- Born
- Feb 20, 1951
Giffnock - Also known as
- James Gordon Brown
- J. Gordon Brown
- James Brown
- ジェームズ・ゴードン・ブラウン
- Prudence
- The Iron Chancellor
- The Prudent Chancellor
- Bottler Brown
- Gordon Brown MP
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Sarah Jane Brown
(2000/08/03 - )
- Sarah Jane Brown
- Children
- Religion
- Church of Scotland
- Presbyterianism
- Ethnicity
- Scottish people
- British people
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Scotland
- Profession
- Education
- Master of Arts, University of Edinburgh
History
( - 1972) - Kirkcaldy High School
- Kirkcaldy West Primary School
- Master of Arts, University of Edinburgh
- Lived in
- Glasgow
- North Queensferry
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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