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...young sons (his daughter died 10 days after her birth in 2002) and a sparky wife who seems adept at summoning his lighter side. Still, it's difficult to imagine him indulging in frivolous pursuits. It comes as no surprise that he's the son of a Scottish preacher, a background that imparted what he calls "a sense of a moral compass," as well as a frugal lifestyle and an urge to evangelize that has long since been sublimated into a focus on such causes as tackling poverty and preventable disease in Africa...
...been anointed to succeed Blair when he steps down this summer, represents continuity: as Chancellor of the Exchequer, he's been Blair's co-architect and co-executor of British government policy for a 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...
...remaking the Tories in his own, personable image and aiming to capture support in traditional Labour heartlands like Manchester. At the beginning of May, as Labour marked a decade in office, voters turfed out scores of the party's representatives at polls in English municipalities and for the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly. The Tories won an average of around 40% of votes in England, compared with Labour's 27%. They didn't make the hoped-for inroads in Manchester, but a similar margin could still be enough to unseat the government at national elections, due by spring...
...contrast, Brown, who, barring any last-minute surprise, will succeed Blair this summer, represents continuity: as Chancellor of the Exchequer, he has steered British government economic policy for the past decade. Brown is unlike Sarkozy in that his ambition has been evident since his youth. The son of a Scottish Presbyterian minister, Brown so excelled at school that he was accepted into the University of Edinburgh at age 16, then worked his way up through the ranks of Britain's Labour Party at a time when it was still saddled with socialist dogma...
...pass barely marked in either country. And tensions between the two may even increase if Gordon Brown, a Scot, becomes the U.K.'s Prime Minister as expected in June. It will highlight an anomaly that's existed since 1999, when Scotland created its own Parliament to address local issues: Scottish M.P.s still vote on English matters in Westminster, but English M.P.s have no say in Edinburgh. "I'd be upset by that too," says Crawford. "The way to solve that is to give England independence...