Gordon Brown
Country Leader
|
UK's Brown to push bank bailout plan at summitUK's Brown to push bank bailout plan at summit LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he would lobby for support for his plan to make banks pay for any future bailout at a Commonwealth summit this week. He also wants... In this article: Gordon Brown, Commonwealth, Zimbabwe, Climate change, Robert Mugabe, Britain, Tax, Carbon, Morgan Tsvangirai, and U.N. |
-
BBC News | 4 days ago
Brown pledges to sustain recovery
...car industry had a knock-on effect for suppliers UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has pledged he will keep the country's fiscal support in place long enough to sustain the economic recovery. In a speech to the CBI, he said the government...
-
Sydney Morning Herald - World | November 18, 2009
Brown builds up to UK election campaign
Brown builds up to UK election campaign The British government has vowed to slash the nation's massive deficit and tighten up rules for the financial services industry as the countdown to the general election begins. Queen Elizabeth II...
In this article: Labour Party, Financial Services Authority, House of Lords, UK, Recession, Child poverty, Carbon, David Cameron, and Queen Elizabeth II
-
Independent.co.uk - UK | 3 days ago
Tories believe Brown will go to the country in March
...finances Senior conservatives believe that Gordon Brown may call a general election next March to head off the prospect of bad economic statistics scuppering his claim that he had guided Britain safely out of recession. The economy is...
In this article: Tories, Labour, Recession, Britain, Tax, Climate change, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and Alistair Darling
-
Telegraph.co.uk - Business | 4 days ago
CBI conference: how it unfolded
...r.lambert was editor'. 11:50am: And to the questions. Brown dismisses the view that he's making Britain a 'hostage to fortune' by putting into a law a plan to halve the deficit. The chief executive of bakery chain Greggs asks for a...
In this article: David Cameron, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Britain, Tax, Stephen Hester, International Monetary Fund, and Royal Bank of Scotland
-
Daily Mail | November 14, 2009
Is Britain the sick man of Europe? Blow to Brown as Eurozone comes out of recession... but UK lags behind
...- but Britain continues to lag behind Gordon Brown was accused of making Britain the 'sick man of Europe' yesterday after the UK was left as one of the few EU members still in recession. European Commission figures showed that the...
In this article: Britain, Recession, Europe, George Osborne, EU, and China
-
AP Online | 4 days ago
UK's Thatcher sweeps back to Downing Street
...residence. Thatcher, the British leader from 1979 to 1990, will join Prime Minister Gordon Brown and David Cameron, a successor to Thatcher as Conservative Party leader, at Downing Street on Monday to unveil the work. Brown's spokesman...
In this article: Margaret Thatcher, Downing Street, UK, London, Conservative Party, David Cameron, David Lloyd George, and Winston Churchill
Trends
Loading...
Collections
More on Gordon Brown
Description from Wikipedia:
James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951) is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party. Brown became Prime Minister in June 2007, after the resignation of Tony Blair and three days after becoming leader of the governing Labour Party. Immediately before this he had served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Labour government from 1997 to 2007 under Tony Blair.
Brown has a PhD in history from the University of Edinburgh and spent his early career working as a television journalist. He has been a Member of Parliament since 1983; first for Dunfermline East and since 2005 for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath. As Prime Minister, he also holds the offices of First Lord of the Treasury and the Minister for the Civil Service.
Brown's time as Chancellor 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 supervision to the Financial Services Authority. Controversial moves included the abolition of Advance Corporation Tax (ACT) relief in his first budget, and the removal in his final budget of the 10 per cent "starting rate" of personal income tax which he had introduced in 1999.
After an initial rise in opinion polls, Brown's time as Prime Minister has seen his approval ratings fall and the Labour Party suffer its worst local election results in 40 years. Despite public and parliamentary pressure on his leadership, he remains leader of the Labour Party.
- Birth Date:
- February 20, 1951
- Birthplace:
- Govan, Glasgow, Scotland
- Religion:
- Church of Scotland
- Nationality:
- British
- Spouse:
- Sarah Brown
- Residence:
- North Queensferry
- University Attended:
- University of Edinburgh
- Political party:
- Labour
Explore everything named Gordon Brown...
