ENG: James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951) 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, the longest-serving holder of the office in modern history. Brown has been a Member of Parliament (MP) since 1983, currently for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath.
Brown became Prime Minister in June 2007, after the resignation of Tony Blair and three days after becoming leader of the governing Labour Party. His tenure ended in May 2010, when he resigned as Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party. Brown was one of only three people to serve in the Cabinet continuously from Labour's victory in 1997 until its ...
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Despite outmaneuvering what amounted to an attempted coup last week by members of his own cabinet, Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain is still fighting to persuade a potentially fratricidal Labor Party not to oust him and choose another leader to carry the Labor standard into a general election.
Empowered to set an election date, Mr. Brown has 12 months at the most — until the end of Labor’s five-year parliamentary mandate — to make that call. But a weekend of continuing acrimony in Labor ranks left it far from certain that Mr. Brown, 58, will still be at the helm when ...
Die Downing Street kommt nicht zur Ruhe: Dieses Mal hat eine Affäre um obszöne E-Mails den britischen Premierminister Gordon Brown in schwere Not gebracht. Einer seiner engsten Berater hatte E-Mails mit Sex-Details und haltlosen Gerüchten über die Opposition verschickt, und die Schmutzkampagne flog auf.
Eine Schmutzkampagne setzt Gordon Brown unter Druck(Foto: DPA)Großbritannien steckt in einer der schwersten Wirtschaftskrisen, und die Regierungsmitarbeiter in der Downing Street haben eigentlich keine Zeit, über das Sexleben der Opposition zu grübeln. ...
Britain stands ready to give up part of its nuclear arsenal as part of a multilateral deal involving all weapon-holding states, Gordon Brown said yesterday.He promised to consider cutting the number of British operational warheads below the present 160 in a move to kick-start the next non-proliferation talks.Britain will continue with its plans to modernise the Trident submarine fleet, according to officials. In future there will be three submarines, each with four missile tubes, in operation at any one time, with a fourth submarine in dock on standby.President Medvedev of Russia appeared to ...
Why speaking to journalists 'off the record' doesn't guarantee anonymity Why should we believe claims made in The Times and the Daily Telegraph that a senior Tory referred to the party's activists as "mad, swivel-eyed loons"?Because, frankly, it stretches credulity to think that two reporters from competing titles would concoct a fake story based on such a specific quote.As I wrote earlier today when looking at the coverage of David Cameron's ongoing dramas, all the national newspaper editors have effectively accepted that the quote was genuine.Even if one accepts the denials of the Conservative party co-chair, Lord Feldman, that he didn't say it, someone clearly did. And maybe he did anyway, and conveniently forgot he had. Or perhaps he wished to forget it.And then there's the little matter of where he was said to have said it. You can hardly expect journalists not to monitor who their peers are talking to.Let's face it, down the years we have been here many, many times. People say things to journalists, possibly in a light-hearted fashion, that end up in
Gordon Brown resigns as LibCon coalition takes effect To begin with, a reflective period in opposition sounded like defeatist talk mainly coming from Gordon's long term enemies but on reflection the Labour Party has come out of this wrangling for power quite well in the eyes of the electorate. Gordon Brown tendered his resignation gracefully and sounded very genuine when talking about his disdain for the trappings of power. But like his heyday at the helm of the chancellery delivering a budget which always contained an unexpected punch, Mr. Brown delivered true to form. Labour can regroup with dignity while exposing the Libcons lack of it. Labour will win the next election as disaffected Tories and Libdems stream to a Labour party without the albatross of incumbency around their neck. All the bets are that this will happen sooner rather than later. You can now direct all your videos and open letters to DavidCameron.comGordonBrown.com
Gordon Brown testifies at The Leveson Inquiry Gordon Brown has been hauled in front of the Leveson Inquiry to give his version of events in the ongoing saga. He is in the unusual position of making some political capital out of his failure to woo the Murdoch Empire. He has been mindful to still champion freedom of speech but strenuously denied Rupert Murdoch's statement that he had declared war on the Murdoch empire. However he has had his moment in the sun to avenge the rather cruel way in which Rebecca Brooks forced them to reveal their 4 month's son cystic fibrosis on the front page of The Sun. Brown in what was an emotional testimony clearly carried the whole courtroom with him by ridiculing Brook's sworn testimony that he had given permission for the story to be run. He claimed that he had wanted a general statement to protect his son's privacy but this was 'unacceptable' to the then Sun editor. The picture Brown paints is one of an extremely powerful media, wholly unaccountable to any pres
Ed Miliband wins over angry man on the dole after insults on immigration Unemployed man swears at Labour leader over immigration but ends up shaking hands after lengthy pavement chatIt was a day of mixed fortunes on the campaign trail for Ed Miliband on Monday.An interview with Martha Kearney on Radio 4's The World at One, recorded in a BBC radio car in a car park in Newcastle-under-Lyme, prompted a chorus of criticism that the Labour leader was sounding less than confident on economic policy.But as I wrote in Tuesday's Guardian Miliband gave a masterclass in an old style of campaigning – revived by the Labour leader – on how to engage with voters of all opinions.The most "electric" encounter – the words of one Labour figure – came at the end of the day in Cleveleys, north of Blackpool, when a passer-by wandered into a question and answer session on the high street and told Miliband he was "full of shit". The man blamed the political class for immigration which, in turn, had made it impossible to find a job, he said. But at the end of a five minute