James Gordon Brown is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2010. He previously served as Chancellor of the Exchequer under Tony Blair from 1997 to 2007. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Dunfermline East from 1983 to 2005,and Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath from 2005 to 2015.
The chancellor of the exchequer,often abbreviated to Chancellor,is a senior minister of the Crown within the Government of the United Kingdom,and head of Treasury. As one of the four Great Offices of State,the chancellor is a high-ranking member of the British Cabinet.
The 1987 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 11 June 1987,to elect 650 members to the House of Commons. The election was the third consecutive general election victory for the Conservative Party,who won a majority of 102 seats and second landslide under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher,who became the first Prime Minister since the Earl of Liverpool in 1820 to lead a party into three successive electoral victories.
Alistair Maclean Darling,Baron Darling of Roulanish,was a British politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer under prime minister Gordon Brown from 2007 to 2010. A member of the Labour Party,he was a member of Parliament (MP) from 1987 to 2015,representing Edinburgh Central and Edinburgh South West.
Yvette Cooper is a British politician who has served as Home Secretary since July 2024. A member of the Labour Party,Cooper has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Pontefract,Castleford and Knottingley,which has previously included Normanton,since 1997.
Christopher Michael Leslie is a British business executive and former politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Shipley from 1997 to 2005 and Nottingham East from 2010 to 2019. A former member of the Labour Party,he defected to form Change UK and later became an independent politician.
Edward Samuel Miliband is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero since July 2024. He has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Doncaster North since 2005. Miliband was Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition between 2010 and 2015. Alongside his brother,Foreign Secretary David Miliband,he served in the Cabinet from 2007 to 2010 under Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
Patrick Bosco McFadden is a British politician who has served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster since July 2024. A member of the Labour Party,he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Wolverhampton South East since 2005. McFadden has previously held various junior ministerial positions and shadow portfolios in his parliamentary career between 2005 and 2024.
The Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury is a junior ministerial post in His Majesty's Treasury,ranked below the First Lord of the Treasury,the Chancellor of the Exchequer,the Chief Secretary to the Treasury,the Paymaster General and the Financial Secretary to the Treasury,and alongside the Economic Secretary to the Treasury. It ranks at Parliamentary Secretary level and the holder does not attend Cabinet.
Not flash,just Gordon was an advertising slogan and campaign used by the British Labour Party in September and October 2007. The campaign was created by advertising agency Saatchi &Saatchi in preparation for a speculated snap general election after Labour Party leader Gordon Brown succeeded Tony Blair as prime minister in June. The campaign intended to win over the electorate by implicitly comparing Brown with Blair,dissociating the former from the latter's demonstrative self-presentation,and also implicitly compared Brown with Conservative Party leader David Cameron. It made Brown's perceived awkward persona a strength and his perceived lack of charisma and limited communication skills a virtue. The campaign ended after Brown said he would not call a snap election on 6 October.
Damian McBride is a British political advisor. He is a former Whitehall civil servant and former special adviser to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. McBride began his civil service career at HM Customs and Excise. He worked with Customs and Excise and later became Head of Communications at the UK Treasury,before becoming a special adviser.
Edward Michael Balls is a British broadcaster,economist and former politician. He served as Secretary of State for Children,Schools and Families from 2007 to 2010,and as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2011 to 2015. A member of Labour Co-op,he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Normanton and later for Morley and Outwood between 2005 and 2015.
In British politics,Brownism is the social democratic political ideology of the former Prime Minister and leader of the Labour Party Gordon Brown and those that follow him. Proponents of Brownism are referred to as Brownites.
David S. Muir is a Scottish marketing and political communications professional. He was Director of Political Strategy for British prime minister Gordon Brown between 2008 and 2010.
Stewart Martin Wood,Baron Wood of Anfield is a Labour life peer in the House of Lords. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford and a Senior Adviser to policy,economics and public affairs firm Bradshaw Advisory.
Jonathan Michael Graham Ashworth is a British former Labour and Co-op politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester South from 2011 to 2024. He had served as Shadow Paymaster General from September 2023 until unexpectedly losing his seat in the 2024 general election by a slim margin. Days after his defeat he was appointed chief executive of the Labour Together thinktank.
The Organisation of Scottish Labour is a body established under the national rules of the UK Labour Party.
James Edward Bowler CB is a senior British civil servant currently serving as the Permanent Secretary to the Treasury since October 2022 having previously served as permanent secretary at the Department for International Trade since 2021. Before assuming this role,Bowler was the second permanent secretary at the Cabinet Office from 2020 to 2021 where he led the COVID Taskforce for the British Government. He was the Director General for Policy,Communication and Analysis at the Ministry of Justice from March to October 2020. Bowler is currently Trustee of the charity Police Now.
Rupert Harrison CBE is a British economist and a portfolio manager at BlackRock. He was from 2006 to 2015 the chief of staff to George Osborne,the British Chancellor of the Exchequer,and chair of the Council of Economic Advisers in the UK Treasury. He is currently a member of the Economic Advisory Council convened by Chancellor of the Exchequer,Jeremy Hunt. In June 2023,he was selected as the Conservative Party candidate for the Bicester &Woodstock constituency at the 2024 general election.
Abena Oppong-Asare is a British Labour Party politician who has served as a Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office since July 2024. She was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Erith and Thamesmead in the 2019 general election. She and Bell Ribeiro-Addy,both elected in the 2019 general election,are the first female British Ghanaian MPs.
