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James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951) ... Brown and George W. Bush, President of the United States, meet at Downing Street, June 2008.
Brown's senior advisers, including Spencer Livermore, Sue Nye, Mike Ellam and Gavin Kelly, continued to exert considerable influence on the government. Brown's other senior advisers included former Treasury Special Advisers Damian McBride, Jonathan Ashworth and Jo Dipple, and former senior Labour Party official Fiona Gordon.
Premiership of Gordon Brown; 0–9. 2007–2008 financial crisis; 2008 United Kingdom local elections; 2009 swine flu pandemic in the United Kingdom;
Brown's much-anticipated memoir was published on 7 November 2017. In a Waterstones interview a few days after its launch, journalist Robert Peston put forward the idea that Gordon Brown was in many ways an underrated politician and an underrated Chancellor. Brown was subsequently approached by Waterstones and interviewed, where he explained how ...
Former prime minister Gordon Brown has demanded the Government come up with an emergency budget before a “financial timebomb” in October “pushes millions over the edge”.
Gordon Brown served as Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. His tenure 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 ...
Mr Brown cited a Focal Data poll showing more than half of voters do not believe the government will be able to pay for their end-of-life care, while 51 per cent believe assisted dying will lead ...
Brown formed his government over the course of the next day, with Jacqui Smith being appointed the United Kingdom's first female home secretary. Following the 2010 general election , which resulted in a hung parliament , the government briefly remained in an acting capacity while negotiations to form a new government took place.