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James Gordon Brown is a British Labour politician, who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party between 2007 and 2010. Between 1997 and 2007, he was the chancellor of the exchequer. He left office on 11 May 2010 and David Cameron became Prime Minister.

childhoodJames Gordon Brown was born at the Orchard Maternity Nursing Home in Giffnock, Renfrewshire, Scotland. His father was John Ebenezer Brown (1914–1998), a minister of the Church of Scotland and a strong influence on Brown. His mother was Jessie Elizabeth "Bunty" Brown (née Souter; 1918–2004); she was the daughter of John Souter, a timber merchant. The family moved to Kirkcaldy – then the largest town in Fife, across the Firth of Forth from Edinburgh – when Gordon was three. Brown was brought up there with his elder brother John and younger brother Andrew in a manse; he is therefore often referred to as a "son of the manse", an idiomatic Scottish phrase, similar to the American phrase "preacher's kid".








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