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...decade. His roots are quite unlike Sarkozy's, too: the son of a Scottish Presbyterian minister, Brown so excelled at school that he was accepted into Edinburgh University at the age of 16 and went on to work his way up through the ranks of Britain's Labour Party at a time when it was saddled with socialist dogma...
...extending the chance of education to every child in the world. Brown's face is already familiar in Brussels. As Tony Blair's Chancellor of the Exchequer, he has represented the U.K. in international financial negotiations for a decade. Back home, he has played a pivotal role in securing Labour's three consecutive electoral victories. His achievements - freeing the Bank of England to set interest rates; masterminding a clever strategy that avoided committing Britain to a speedy adoption of the euro; an impressive record of steady growth, low inflation and high employment - are so anchored in British life that they...
...should expect the softer reaches of his character to yield clues to his political landscape. He's analytical but not self-aware, sometimes so absorbed in big, important musings that he fails to straighten his tie or untuck his trouser legs from his socks or recognize his colleagues. At Labour's annual conference last fall, the premier-in-waiting made awkward progress around a reception organized by the party and full of potential donors, thrusting a large hand at unfamiliar guests and deploying a lame icebreaker about the conference venue in the industrial capital of northwest England. "Gordon Brown...
When Tony Blair was elected to Britain's House of Commons in 1983, he was just 30, the Labour Party's youngest M.P. Labour had just fought and lost a disastrous election campaign on a far-left platform, and Margaret Thatcher, fresh from her victory in the Falklands War, was in her pomp. The opposition to Thatcher was limited to a few ancient warhorses and a handful of bright young things. Blair, boyish Blair, quickly became one of the best of the breed...
...Just over a decade later, the SNP is set to become the largest party in the Scottish Parliament. In polls leading up to the May 3 election, it's about six percentage points ahead of the Labour Party, which has not lost an election in Scotland for 50 years. That's not enough to form a majority government, but it's a powerful position from which to enter coalition talks, possibly with the Liberal Democrats...