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1989 Appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry
1989 Appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry


1992 Appointed Shadow Chancellor
1992 General election: Conservative 42% 336 seats; Labour 34% 271 seats;  Liberal Democrats 18% 20seats
: Brown appointed Shadow Chancellor
: John Smith replaces Neil Kinnock as Leader of the Opposition.
: John Smith replaces Neil Kinnock as Leader of the Opposition.


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: 31 May - Meeting with [[Tony Blair]] at the ''Granita'' restaurant
: 31 May - Meeting with [[Tony Blair]] at the ''Granita'' restaurant
: 8 September - Strategy conference at the ''Chewton Glen'' hotel
: 8 September - Strategy conference at the ''Chewton Glen'' hotel
1997 General election: Labour 43% 418 seats; Conservative 31% 165 seats;  Liberal Democrats 17% 46seats


===Chancellor of the Exchequer===
===Chancellor of the Exchequer===

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Parliamentary Career

Opposition 1983-97

1983 Elected Member of Parliament for Dunfermline East as a member of the Labour Party under the leadership of Neil Kinnock.

(Maiden speech[1])

1984 Brown attends Democratic National Convention on San Francisco

1987 General election: Conservative 46% 358 seats; Labour 30% 155 seats; Liberal/SDP alliance 24% 10seats

Brown appointed Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury

1989 Appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry

1992 General election: Conservative 42% 336 seats; Labour 34% 271 seats; Liberal Democrats 18% 20seats

Brown appointed Shadow Chancellor
John Smith replaces Neil Kinnock as Leader of the Opposition.

1993 3-day visit to the United States and meeting with Alan Greenspan.

1994 Death of John Smith

31 May - Meeting with Tony Blair at the Granita restaurant
8 September - Strategy conference at the Chewton Glen hotel

1997 General election: Labour 43% 418 seats; Conservative 31% 165 seats; Liberal Democrats 17% 46seats

Chancellor of the Exchequer

Constitutional innovations1997-98.

  • Independence for the Bank of England
  • Five tests for Euro membership
  • Code for Fiscal Stability
  • Pre-budget reports

Fiscal contraction 1997-2000

  • the budget balance changed from a deficit of 2.4 per cent of national income in 1996-7 to a surplus of 2.4 per cent in 2000-01, and the national debt fell from 42.5% of in 1996–97 to 30.7% of national income in 2000–01[1]

Public sector investment and fiscal expansion 2000-2007

Budgetary changes 2000-2007
  • increased investment in health and education
  • the current budget balance moved from a surplus of 2.4 per cengt of national income in 2000–01 to a deficit of 0.3 per cent of national income by 2007–08 and the national debt rose to 36.5 per cent of national income in 2007–08.[1]
The Euro
9 June - Brown delivers the Treasury assessment on the euro, saying that economic tests for UK membership have not been met.

International activities 1999-2007

Prime Minister

2007-2009 Financial Crisis

  • £500 billion bank rescue plan [2], including powers to take equity stakes in ailing banks and an undertaking to guarantee interbank loans.
  • October 2008 Britain's bank rescue plan adopted in the EU and the USA[3]

2010 Northern Ireland agreement

2010 Deficit reduction plans

  • Fiscal Responsibility Act[4] - imposes a duty on the Treasury to ensure that by the financial year ending 2014 public sector net borrowing as a percentage of GDP is at least halved from its level for the financial year ending 2010, and to make continuing reductions thereafter.

2010 General election

Opposition

Personal history

  • 1951 Born, Glasgow, Son of John Brown, a Presbeterian church minister
  • 1954 The family move to Kirkaldy
  • 1961 Starts at Kirkaldy High School
  • 1966 Passes A-level examinations with 5 A grades
  • 1967 Starts at Edinburgh University
    becomes a serious Rugby player, but sporting career is ended by an accident in which he loses the sight of his left eye
  • 1970 Awarded a Master of Arts (with 1st class honours)
  • 1973 Elected Student Rector, Edinburgh University
    Becomes a member of the Scottish Labour Party's National Executive
  • 1976: Politics lecturer, Glasgow College of Technology
    Selected as prospective parliamentary candidate for Edinburgh South
  • 1980: Journalist (current affairs) Scottish Television
  • 1982: Doctor of Philosophy, Edinburgh University
  • 1983: Selected as prospective parliamentary candidate for Dunfermline East - and elected to parliament
  • 1996: Appointed Member of Privy Council
  • 2000: Marriage to Sarah Macaulay

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