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James Gordon Brown is a British Labour Party politician, who has been a Member of Parliament (MP) since 1983, currently for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath. He served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 until 2010. 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. His tenure ended in May 2010, when he resigned as Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party.
Brown has a PhD in History from the University of Edinburgh and spent his early career working as a lecturer at a further education college and 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 held the offices of ... » Read more on Wikipedia.org

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 Ed Miliband wins over angry man on the dole after insults on immigration
2013-04-30
But at the end of a five minute encounter over a telephone exchange box in the high street they shook hands and parted as friends. Here is the transcript of their exchange which shows: • Miliband is no Gordon Brown. The former prime minister had his ...
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 Scottish Actor Surprised At Ryan Gosling's Niceness: 'I Expected Him To Be AK**b'
2013-04-29
When Scottish actor Gordon Brown (not to be confused with our former PM!) worked with the Drive star on his latest film, he thought that he might be a bit up himself - but was soon proved wrong! Brown, who hails from Stirling, was in Thailand filming ...
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 Gordon Brown to speak in the Commons
2013-01-15
Gordon Brown to speak in the Commons for first time a year. Gordon Brown could be set to make his first speech in Parliament today for more than 13 months. Britain's former prime minister Gordon Brown could be set to speak to parliament Photo: REUTERS ...
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  3. Gordon Brown says he has found buyers for Fife Remploy factories
2012
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 Blair Thought (5)
2012-06-18
Tony Blair thought Gordon Brown was 'bonkers' (PerthNow, heraldsun.com.au, News.com.au)
Blair thought Brown was 'bonkers': Former media chief (Straits Times)
Blair thought Brown was ‘bonkers’ (Gulf News)
Excerpt: FORMER British prime minister Tony Blair thought his successor Gordon Brown was "bonkers" and a "malign force" who was "hell-bent" on his destruction, according to his ex-media chief's diaries. The extracts from Alastair Campbell's diaries shone a light on... (Read article)
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 Gordon Brown at Leveson Inquiry (10)
2012-06-11
Leveson Inquiry: Gordon Brown 'cooked up' deal claim (BBC News)
Gordon Brown launches fierce attack on Rupert Murdoch at Leveson inquiry (The Guardian)
Leveson Inquiry: Gordon Brown gives evidence of row with Sun (Daily Guide)
Excerpt: David Cameron at Leveson Live Q&A: The Leveson Inquiry Q&A: Hunt at Leveson Hunt's Leveson documents analysed David Cameron has accused Gordon Brown of "cooking up" a "specious and unjustified conspiracy theory" about a deal between the Conservatives and... (Read article)
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2012-03-27
Gordon Brown meets Defence Secretary Philip Hammond to demand Dalgety Bay beach clean-up (Daily Record)
Gordon Brown wants MoD to take responsibility for Dalgety Bay radiation (Stv.tv)
Gordon Brown calls for action on contamination at Dalgety Bay (Herald Scotland)
Excerpt: GORDON Brown has called on the Defence ­Secretary to arrange for the clean-up of a beach where radioactive particles were found. The former prime minister handed Philip Hammond a dossier about the site at Dalgety Bay in Fife, which is in his... (Read article)
2011
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2011-12-08
2012, the End or the Beginning? -- 2011 Halter Financial Summit Was Held (TMCnet)
British report criticizes "light touch" financial regulation (Monsters and Critics)
Financial services sectors contribute the most in taxes (Leicester Mercury)
Excerpt: Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and former U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown were among the keynote speakers for the event. During his speech before approximately 1,300 attendees, President Carter highlighted many of the great changes and... (Read article)
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2011-07-12
Rupert Murdoch's phone-hacking scandal: A timeline (The Week via Yahoo! News)
Rupert Murdoch's No 10 visits made through the back door (Independent)
Some MPs have told "total lies", says Rupert Murdoch (The New Statesman)
Excerpt: Murdoch built a media empire on newspapers, and now one, News of the World, could be his downfall. A chronography of when and how things went... (Read article)
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 Wood Celebrates Top DJ Award (3)
2011-05-09
Wood celebrates top DJ award (Shropshire Star, Belfast Telegraph, Horncastle Today)
Excerpt: Rolling Stones star Ronnie Wood has landed a top award as one of the UK's leading DJs - just a year after launching his broadcasting... (Read article)
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 Gordon Brown defends Iraq decision
2010-03-06
On Friday, the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Gordon Brown defended the decisions he made leading up to and following the British invasion of Iraq in 2003. Brown made his statements while testifying before the Chilcot Inquiry. At the time of the invasion, Brown was the Chancellor of spending for the British Armed Forces.
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 Gordon Brown: Extra troops for Afghanistan, Yemen security the focus for int'l conference
2010-01-25
British prime minister Gordon Brown said in his monthly news conference today that a conference on the war in Afghanistan and another on security concerns in Yemen, due to take place over two one-day sessions in London this week, will announce an expansion of the British military presence in Afghanistan.
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 Gordon Brown says the UK won't run out of gas
2010-01-10
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Saturday that the UK's natural gas reserves will not run out in spite of record demand. This spike in demand is caused by the recent cold weather. A supplier, National Grid, issued two "balancing alerts", which mean a possible supply shortfall, which were promptly lifted. A spokeswoman for the company said that there was a possible shortfall of 35 million cubic metres (1.2 billion cubic feet). This third balancing alert is expected to last for the next few days, and is said not to be due to the cold weather – which is expected to continue for at least a week – but due to problems in Norwegian gas fields.
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2009
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 Minor tears found in Gordon Brown's retina
2009-10-12
The British government has said that eyesight tests reveal Prime Minister Gordon Brown has two minor tears in the retina of his right eye.
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2008
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 Bush, Brown threaten further sanctions against Iran
2008-06-17
U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown have promised new sanctions on Iran if the Gulf country continues to enrich weapons-grade uranium.
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 George Bush meets with Gordon Brown
2008-04-17
The President of the United States George W. Bush met today with his UK counterpart Gordon Brown, and addressed a press conference following the meeting in the Rose Garden of the White House.
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 Gordon Brown makes speech as part of Labour Party conference
2008-03-01
United Kingdom Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has made a speech to UK Labour Party members as part of the party's spring conference. In the speech he made several commitments, which he said he would "work tirelessly" to achieve.
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2007
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 UK PM Brown meets with US President Bush at Camp David
2007-07-31
United Kingdom Prime Minister Gordon Brown met United States President George W. Bush at Camp David in Maryland for their first formal talks since Brown took office in June.
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 Gordon Brown becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
2007-06-27
Gordon Brown has become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Queen Elizabeth II invited him to form a government in a meeting at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday afternoon.
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2006
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 Brown promises Britain will lead world in fight against climate change
2006-10-30
UK Chancellor Gordon Brown promises that UK will lead the world in the fight against global warming.
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 Blunkett: Brown supported Iraq war to save job
2006-10-12
The Blunkett diaries, being serialised in the Guardian, claim that Gordon Brown opposed the war against Iraq. Only at the last minute did he give in, according to the diaries, when he realised that Blair would sack him otherwise.
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 Gordon Brown announces new powers for UK Treasury
2006-10-10
Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced today that an Order in Council will be made tomorrow empowering the British Treasury to prevent the funding of those suspected of planning terror. Use will be made of forensic accounting and of methods similar to those employed by the code breakers at Bletchley Park. With the help of computing power to discover relations between bits of information, they cracked the German Enigma code during WWII. Gordon Brown ranks the impact of forensic accounting at the present time with the use of fingerprinting in the 19th century and of DNA in the late 20th Century.
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