I'm a great supporter of the European Union. I didn't support entry to the Euro, not because I'm against it in principle but because I didn't think it was economically right for Britain. But that doesn't make me any less pro-European.

Growing up he discovered Tawney Tressell Cole and other socialist texts which inspired him. He joined the Shadow Cabinet in 1989 as Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and was later promoted to become Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1992. Other appointments
Sir Tim Berners-Lee who had worked with the government during Brown's premiership to publish government data on the internet in the data.

In 2007 Tony Blair resigned as Prime Minister and Labour Leader and Brown was chosen to replace him in an uncontested election. He was succeeded as Prime Minister by David Cameron and on 25 September 2010 he was succeeded as Leader of the Labour Party by Ed Miliband. He previously served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Labour Government from 1997 to 2007.