Gordon Brown
✓ Source-basedfallingPrime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2010
He ran the Treasury for a decade, steering Britain through its longest unbroken growth spell, then inherited the top job just in time to face the worst financial collapse in generations.
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Tony Blair (pictured) was a close colleague of Brown. Together, they made a pact (Blair-Brown deal) that Brown would succeed Blair as prime minister.
Brown's official portrait during his chancellorship
Brown chairing his first cabinet meeting
Brown and George W. Bush, President of the United States, meet at Downing Street, June 2008
Brown at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos in 2008
Brown meets British troops during a visit to Basra, 2007In their own words 10
The problem we have is making sure that we do not inflict harm on ourselves, by leaving the EU with no deal.
Jeremy Corbyn risks scuppering no-confidence vote, says Jo Swinson BBC News (26 August 2019)
To prevent the rise of dysfunctional nationalism, the first step is to stop no deal in its tracks
Gordon Brown: Union is 'sleepwalking into oblivion' amid nationalism BBC News (11 August 2019)
Talking up no deal means renouncing the chance of a positive post-Brexit relationship with the continent and our major economic partners
Brexit: Survival of UK in doubt, Gordon Brown warns BBC News (25 June 2019)
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James Gordon Brown was born 20 February 1951 and studied history at the University of Edinburgh, earning a doctorate before working as a lecturer and television journalist. Elected MP for Dunfermline East in 1983, he climbed to Shadow Chancellor under John Smith in 1992, then took the real thing when Labour swept to power in 1997. As Chancellor of the Exchequer under Tony Blair until 2007, Brown remade Britain's economic architecture - handing interest rates to the Bank of England, resisting the euro with his five tests, presiding over record growth but also controversies like the abolition of advance corporation tax relief and the sale of gold reserves from 1999 to 2002. When Blair resigned in 2007, Brown succeeded him unopposed as Prime Minister and Labour leader, only to meet the 2008 financial crisis head-on: his government took majority stakes in Northern Rock and Royal Bank of Scotland, injected public money across the banking system, and passed the world's first Climate Change Act in 2008 along with the Equality Act 2010. Labour lost 91 seats in the 2010 general election, handing power to a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition under David Cameron.
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