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James Gordon Brown (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 resigned the party leadership on 24 June 2007 and as prime minister on 27 June, and was succeeded by Gordon Brown, his chancellor. After leaving office, Blair gave up his seat and was appointed special envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East, a diplomatic post he held until 2015.
Soon after Brown was succeeded as prime minister by David Cameron, [171] while Harriet Harman became acting leader of the Labour Party. [172] She stepped down after Ed Miliband became Labour leader and Brown's successor.
He resigned the party leadership on 24 June 2007 and as prime minister on 27 June, and was succeeded by Gordon Brown, his chancellor. In 2003, Blair became the longest continuously-serving Labour prime minister, surpassing Clement Attlee 's six-year term from 1945 to 1951.
The election process concluded with Brown being declared leader at a special conference on 24 June 2007. On 27 June, Blair resigned as Prime Minister and was succeeded by Brown. [8] If Brown had been opposed, Labour Party members would for the first time have directly elected a new prime minister.
Succeeded by Jeremy Corbyn Ed Miliband was elected as Leader of the Opposition in September 2010, following the resignation of Gordon Brown after the formation of David Cameron and Nick Clegg 's Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition government in the aftermath of the 2010 general election .
In 2007, Blair resigned from the party leadership after thirteen years and was succeeded by his Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown. Labour lost the 2010 general election which resulted in the first hung parliament in thirty-six years and led to the creation of a Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition government. Brown resigned as ...
When Blair stepped down as Prime Minister in June 2007, he was succeeded by his Chancellor, Gordon Brown. [6] Blair's decade-long premiership had been a time of economic boom for the United Kingdom, [3] but Brown's tenure as Prime Minister was dominated by the global recession of the latter part of the 2000s. [8]