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In the weeks and months ahead, my task is to show I have the new ideas, the vision and the experience to earn the trust of the British people.

Gordon Brown

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Gordon Brown
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 20
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The next election will be a flyweight versus a heavyweight. However much the right hon. Gentleman [David Cameron] may dance around the ring beforehand, at some point, he will come within the reach of a big clunking fist...
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Once government's objectives were economic growth and social cohesion. Now they are prosperity, fairness and environmental care
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Britain does not want a return to boom and bust.
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Our approach is to reject the old vicious circle of the '80s-rising debt, higher long-term interest rates, higher debt repayment costs, lower growth, higher unemployment, then enforced cuts in public spending. That was the old boom and bust.
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It is time to train British workers for the British jobs that will be available over the coming few years and to make sure that people who are inactive and unemployed are able to get the new jobs on offer in our country.
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What has become clear is that Britain cannot trust the Conservatives to run the economy. Everyone knows that I'm all in favour of apprenticeships, but let me tell you this is no time for a novice.
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So another challenge for our generation is to create global institutions that reflect our ideas of fairness and responsibility, not the ideas that were the basis of the last stage of financial development over these recent years.
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Boom and bust is a term that applied to the Conservative years and two of the worst recessions in history.
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Our new economic approach is rooted in ideas which stress the importance of macro-economics, post neo-classical endogenous growth theory and the symbiotic relationships between growth and investment, and people and infrastructure.
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The doubling of oil prices ... is creating a more difficult environment in which to act.
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Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.
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We must then build a proper relationship between the richest and the poorest countries based on our desire that they are able to fend for themselves with the investment that is necessary in their agriculture, so that Africa is not a net importer of food, but an exporter of food.
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On this day I remember words that have stayed with me since my childhood and which matter a great deal to me today, my school motto: I will try my outmost. This is my promise to all of the people of Britain and now let the work of change begin.
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Sometimes it takes a crisis for people to agree that what is obvious and should have been done years ago, can no longer be postponed. We must create a new international financial architecture for the global age.
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America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions to the world economy.
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I take full responsibility for what happened. That's why the person who was responsible went immediately.
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We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines through British history. Our commitment to fairness, fair play and civic duty.
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Britain and Pakistan will jointly fight the menace of terrorism .. Both the countries are facing a common threat of terrorism and we know that Pakistan is even more committed to fighting this menace
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My favourite sport at school was rugby. All sports are teamwork, but rugby particularly is about teamwork and I think teamwork is the essence of this.
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