ENG - James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951) is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. He took office on 27 June 2007, three days after becoming leader of the Labour Party. Prior to this he served as the Chancellor of the Exchequer under Tony Blair from 1997 to 2007, becoming the United Kingdom's longest serving Chancellor since Nicholas Vansittart in the early 19th century.
Brown has a PhD in history from the University of Edinburgh and spent his early career working as a TV journalist. He has been a Member of Parliament since 1983; firstly for Dunfermline East and since 2005 for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath. As Prime Minister, he also holds the positions of First Lord of the Treasury and the Minister for the Civil Service.
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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 ...
123 - in poll Gordon Brown 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 ...
Sally - in poll Gordon Brown
Gordon brown has a glass eye because he suffered a detached retina in an accident playing rugby. He was left blind in his left eye.
