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The vision of personalised public services - meeting the individual needs of all our citizens - requires continuing reform in the way services are delivered
Gordon Brown
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Gordon Brown
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 20
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James Gordon Brown
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[They] should never have put me with that woman. ... She was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour.
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I will listen and I will learn. I will strive to meet people's aspirations. I want to lead a government humble enough to know its place - where I will always strive to be - and that is on people's side.
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