Autographs of Gordon Brown
James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2010. Previously, he was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1997 to 2007 under Tony Blair. Brown was Member of Parliament (MP) for Dunfermline East from 1983 to 2005 and for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath from 2005 to 2015. He has served as United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education since 2012, and he was appointed as World Health Organization Ambassador for Global Health Financing in 2021.
A doctoral graduate, Brown studied history at the University of Edinburgh. He spent his early career as a lecturer at a further education college and as a television journalist. Brown was elected to the House of Commons at the 1983 general election as the MP for Dunfermline East. He was appointed to Neil Kinnock's shadow cabinet in 1989 and was named Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer by John Smith in 1992. Following Labour's victory in the 1997 general election, Brown was appointed as chancellor, becoming the longest-serving in modern history. Brown's time as chancellor was marked by major reform of Britain's monetary and fiscal policy architecture, transferring interest rate setting to the Bank of England, extending the powers of the Treasury to cover much domestic policy, and transferring banking supervision to the Financial Services Authority. Brown presided over the longest period of economic growth in British history. He outlined five economic tests, which resisted the UK adopting the euro. Controversial moves included the abolition of advance corporation tax (ACT) relief in his first budget, the sale of UK gold reserves from 1999 to 2002, and the removal in his final budget of the 10% starting rate of income tax that he had introduced in the 1999 budget.
Following Blair's resignation in 2007, Brown was elected unopposed to succeed him as prime minister and party leader. The party continued as New Labour, though Brown's style of government differed from Blair's. He remained committed to close ties with the United States and to the war in Iraq, although he established an inquiry into the reasons for Britain's participation in the conflict. Brown's government introduced rescue packages to keep banks afloat during the 2008 financial crisis, and so national debt increased. The government took majority shareholdings in Northern Rock and Royal Bank of Scotland, which had experienced severe financial difficulties, and injected public money into other banks. In 2008, Brown's government passed the world's first Climate Change Act, and he also introduced the Equality Act 2010. Despite poll rises just after Brown became prime minister, when he failed to call a snap election in 2007, his popularity fell and Labour's popularity declined with the Great Recession. Labour lost 91 seats in the 2010 general election, resulting in a hung parliament in which the Conservative Party won the most seats. After the Conservatives formed a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats, Brown was succeeded as prime minister by Conservative leader David Cameron, and as Labour leader by Ed Miliband.
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Current items with a signature of Gordon Brown
These are the most current items with a signature of Gordon Brown that were listed on eBay and on other online stores - click here for more items.
| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | Gordon Brown British Prime Minister Autographed Signed Card + COA | £42.99 |  |
| Gordon Brown British Prime Minister Autographed Signed Card + COA | £42.99 | |
Traded items with a signature of Gordon Brown
The most expensive item with a signature of Gordon Brown (Tony Blair And Gordon Brown Signed Bottle Of Red Wine 2003) was sold in March 2025 for £418.43 while the cheapest item (SIGNED Sarah Brown Hardback Book -Behind the Black Door Gordon Brown PM Politics) found a new owner for £0.99 in April 2021. The month with the most items sold (5) was February 2014 with an average selling price of £6.00 for an autographed item of Gordon Brown. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in June 2025 with £206.94 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £0.99 was July 2020. In average, an autographed item from Gordon Brown is worth £16.00.
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Latest News about Gordon Brown
Brown tells Sunak to apologise to grieving family after 'degrading' transgender (08/02/2024): Rishi Sunak should apologise for his transgender jibe which was made while Brianna Ghey's mother was in parliament, Gordon Brown has told Sky News. 
Does it matter how young or old our politicians are? (19/01/2024): Former prime minister Gordon Brown told Sky News he was too old to be a politician in the UK but too young to be one in the US. Millions of children are in poverty and government must do more, 'worried' Gordo (18/01/2024): Gordon Brown has called on the government to carry out a "root and branch" review of Universal Credit amid growing poverty in the UK. Gordon Brown calls for stronger TV regulation - and says Wootton and Fox 'have g (27/09/2023): Dan Wootton and Laurence Fox "have got to be kept off air", according to former prime minister Gordon Brown. Gordon Brown forms group with Labour politicians calling for UK democracy reform (01/06/2023): A group of high-profile Labour politicians have banded together to campaign for "urgent" reform of the UK's democracy.
Older News Stories about Gordon Brown
Labour will create new second chamber as current Lords set-up 'indefensible' - G (12/2022): Labour will create a new democratic second chamber called the Assembly of Nations and Regions, Gordon Brown has said - as he branded the current House of Lords set-up "indefensible". Starmer reveals talks with Blair and Brown about becoming PM (11/2022): Sir Keir Starmer has revealed that he has held discussions with former prime ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown about how to achieve his aim of becoming the country's next leader. Nearly 50,000 sign petition backing Gordon Brown's call for emergency budget to (08/2022): Nearly 50,000 people have signed a petition backing former prime minister Gordon Brown's call for an emergency budget to tackle the cost-of-living crisis. Beth Rigby Interviews... Gordon Brown (06/2022): Sky News' political editor Beth Rigby is back from reporting on the prime minister's trip to the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Rwanda. Former Labour minister Lord Myners dies aged 73 (01/2022): Lord Myners, a Treasury minister under former prime minister Gordon Brown, has died aged 73. Cut to universal credit uplift 'not the right way to save government money', Gor (10/2021): Gordon Brown has pleaded with the government not to go ahead with a £20-a-week cut to universal credit. COVID will 'come back to haunt us' and could affect vaccinated if jabs aren't se (09/2021): The leaders of the seven biggest Western economies need to meet in the next two weeks to arrange for millions of vaccine doses to be sent to Africa to stop COVID returning to "haunt" their countries, Gordon Brown has said. Gordon Brown urges wealthiest nations to do more to help global COVID vaccinatio (06/2021): Former prime minister Gordon Brown has urged wealthier nations to do more to help vaccinate the entire world, saying it is a decision of "who lives and who dies". 'Give him a chance': Former PM Brown backs Starmer as Labour leader (05/2021): Former prime minister Gordon Brown has backed Sir Keir Starmer, telling Sky News Labour has got to give him a chance. Gordon Brown suggests ex-PMs should be banned from lobbying for five years (04/2021): Gordon Brown has suggested former prime ministers should be banned from lobbying on behalf of businesses for five years after leaving Downing Street. UK in danger of becoming 'failed state' if 'massive inequalities' not addressed (01/2021): The United Kingdom is in danger of becoming a "failed state", Gordon Brown has warned, with people in some parts treated like "second class citizens". Brown predicts voters would reject Scottish independence in second vote (12/2020): Gordon Brown has expressed confidence that voters would reject Scottish independence in a second referendum, but acknowledged it would be a "hard battle" to preserve the Union. PM 'risks destroying UK's global reputation' with foreign aid cut (11/2020): Boris Johnson risks trashing Britain's reputation "across the world" if he cuts the UK's foreign aid spending, former prime minister Gordon Brown has warned. Gordon Brown: Internal Market Bill 'self-harm' (09/2020): Former prime minister Gordon Brown has called the government's planned Internal Market Bill "self-harm". Coronavirus: Gordon Brown to assist Wales' after pandemic (04/2020): Gordon Brown has agreed to help the Welsh Government as part of an advisory group. Coronavirus: 'It's about building confidence' - Gordon Brown (03/2020): The former PM spoke to Radio 4 about the UK's response to the coronavirus. Ex-PM Gordon Brown: 'I think the United Kingdom could end' (01/2020): Speaking to the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg, former prime minister Gordon Brown has warned the United Kingdom "could end" unless the UK "fundamentally changes".
