What do you know about James Gordon Brown?
James Gordon Brown, otherwise known as Gordon Brown, is the current leader of the Labour Party and has been the prime minister in the UK since 27 June 2007. But what you know about Gordon Brown and his career in politics?
Gordon Brown was born on 20 February 1951 in Giffnock, Renfrewshire, Scotland, his father, John Ebenezer Brown, was a minister of the Church of Scotland and has had a strong influence on Gordon Brown's career and his life. After a spell as shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer between July 1992 and May 1997, Gordon Brown finally hit the big time in UK politics when he became Chancellor of the Exchequer in a Labour government between May 1997 and June 2007.
He was involved in a very controversial handover of power when Tony Blair left office in 2007 and Gordon Brown was installed as prime Minster of the United Kingdom on 27 June 2007, despite never having given voters a chance to elect him to the position. In his term as Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown made a number of changes which were at the time applauded by many but some of these changes could come back to haunt him.
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