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
weekend long support
The IIFA Weekend has my unprecedented support. The relationship between India and the UK is long standing and one we would like to keep developing forever.
blair
Tony Blair is the best friend I've had in politics.
should-have years people
Sometimes it takes a crisis for people to agree that what is obvious and should have been done years ago, can no longer be postponed.... We must create a new international financial architecture for the global age.
winning two people
I don't see politics as one or two people just making or delivering announcements - it's also about winning public support and the public enthusiasm. You've got to win public support.
taken party yesterday
56,000 companies have already benefited from the schemes that we have brought in. If we have taken the advice of the Conservative Party, no money would have been used. As Barack Obama said only yesterday, doing nothing is not an option.
art communication speech
We had lost the art of communication - but not, alas, the gift of speech.
stress ideas people
Our new economic approach is rooted in ideas which stress the importance of macro-economics, post neo-classical endogenous growth theory and the symbiotic relationships between growth and investment, and people and infrastructure.
skills tough introducing
We are being tough in saying it is a duty on the unemployed in future not only to be available for work - and not to shirk work - but also to get the skills for work. That is a new duty we are introducing.
important should said
They should never have put me with that woman. ... She was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour.
country strong today
Good strong banks are essential for every family and for every business in the country and extraordinary times call for the bold and far-reaching solutions that the Treasury has announced today.
believe
There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe.
communication technology opportunity
Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally. That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world.
ideas people vision
In the weeks and months ahead, my task is to show I have the new ideas, the vision and the experience to earn the trust of the British people.
math thinking years
I did maths for a year at university. I don't think I was very good at it. And some people would say it shows.