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
country jobs years
It is time to train British workers for the British jobs that will be available over the coming few years and to make sure that people who are inactive and unemployed are able to get the new jobs on offer in our country.
responsibility years ideas
So another challenge for our generation is to create global institutions that reflect our ideas of fairness and responsibility, not the ideas that were the basis of the last stage of financial development over these recent years.
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
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.
years two conservative
Boom and bust is a term that applied to the Conservative years and two of the worst recessions in history
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.
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.
years water people
...in just 25 years the glaciers in the Himalayas which provide water for three-quarters of a billion people could disappear entirely.
graduation years four
Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.
progress towards welcome
We welcome the progress towards flexibility that has been made in China,
affluent africa centuries question talk
We (in affluent countries) used to talk for centuries about what we could do for Africa. But the real question is about empowerment, and what Africa can do for itself.
britain enduring generosity given massive people spirit
I sense a new spirit in Britain: that the people of Britain want this massive demonstration of generosity to be given enduring purpose.
british equivalent fourth french july
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?