Gordon Brown is a Scottish-born British Labour Party politician who served as chancellor of the Exchequer (1997–2007) and prime minister of the United Kingdom (2007–10). At the time of his elevation to prime minister, he had been the longest continuous
party’s history. In 2007 Blair resigned the prime ministership in favour of his longtime chancellor of the Exchequer,Gordon Brown. In the subsequentgeneral election of 2010, Labour won 258 seats in the House of Commons and lost its majority. Brown stepped down as leader of the party and ...
Those 14 years of Conservative rule have been marked bypoliticalandeconomic turmoil, with a rotating cast of five Conservative prime ministers occupying 10 Downing Street in the last eight years alone. The latest polling by the major independent data analysis groupYouGovshows Labour in...
From New Jerusalem to New Labour: British Prime Ministers from Attlee to Blair – Edited by Vernon BogdanorNo abstract is available for this article.doi:10.1111/j.1750-0206.2012.00351_8.xBARKERRODNEYBlackwell Publishing LtdParliamentary History...
Labour Pains(Season 39, Episode 23) TV Episode|Documentary, News Edit pageAdd to list But post-war Labour prime ministers have faced same persistent problems: sterling crises, pressures on spending, strained relations with ' unions, and internal party 4 strife. ...
Newton Emerson: Sinn Féin is playing the long game amid election that is its to lose The party will opt to ‘make Northern Ireland work’ . . . for now By Newton EmersonThu Apr 07 2022 - 01:00 Newton Emerson: North should return to idea of paying for itself When reform of Belfast ...
Adored by many staffers and key shadow cabinet ministers alike, some party figures retain more affection for him than they do the leader. The highest form of praise in Labour HQ is: “Morgan loves it.” But his popularity outside of the central party machine is not universal. His long cr...
The exit poll results suggested that after 14 years in power under five different prime ministers, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ’s Conservatives are set to have their seats in the 650-seat House of Commons cut down to 131. That would be the Tories’ worst result in the party’s two-century...
If anything the Tory’s manifesto plans have actually gone backwards. At the time of the Conservative party conference in October 2015, the prime minister and home secretary unveiled what appeared to be firm plans to tackle the jihadist and extremist threat in Britain. Detailed measures were outli...
Former Cabinet ministers are among six Conservatives set to enter Lords Save December 19 2024 Robert Shrimsley Time for Keir Starmer to remember he is first lord of the Treasury With growth at the heart of his policy platform, the prime minister is remarkably passive on the economy Save ...