Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown
James Gordon Brownis a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2010. He previously served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Blair Government from 1997 to 2007. Brown was a Member of Parliamentfrom 1983 to 2015, first for Dunfermline East and later for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth20 February 1951
CityGiffnock, Scotland
thinking july matter
Think for a moment: what is the British equivalent of the U.S. Fourth of July, or even the French 14th of July for that matter?
children fairness britain
This is a Budget for Britain's future to secure fairness for each child and invest in every child
government growth environmental
Once government's objectives were economic growth and social cohesion. Now they are prosperity, fairness and environmental care
character years challenges
Our mission is, in truth, historic and world changing - to build, over the next fifty years and beyond, a global low carbon economy. And it is not overdramatic to say that the character and course of the coming century will be set by how we measure up to this challenge
oil creating environmental
The doubling of oil prices ... is creating a more difficult environment in which to act.
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On this day I remember words that have stayed with me since my childhood and which matter a great deal to me today, my school motto: "I will try my outmost". This is my promise to all of the people of Britain and now let the work of change begin.
thinking should contests
I am happy for there to be a leadership contest. I think there should be
years discipline together
Rigorous financial discipline that, together with monetary stability, ends once and for all the boom and bust that for 30 years has undermined stability
years britain interest
Britain was set to repeat the boom-bust cycle that led to 15 per cent. interest rates for one whole year in the early 1990s.
management modern economic
Indeed, Britain was set to repeat the old, familiar cycle of boom and bust. Since then, we have created and rigorously adhered to a new framework of modern economic management
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Britain does not want a return to boom and bust.
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Our approach is to reject the old vicious circle of the '80s-rising debt, higher long-term interest rates, higher debt repayment costs, lower growth, higher unemployment, then enforced cuts in public spending. That was the old boom and bust.
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Boom and bust is a term that applied to the Conservative years and two of the worst recessions in history
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I am not going to make decisions based on barricades and blockades, nor am I going to make decisions based on the short-term volatility of the oil price.