What is Gordon Brown?
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2019}} {{Infobox prime minister |honorific-prefix = [[The Right Honourable]] |name = Gordon Brown |honorific-suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100|HFRSE}} |image = Gordon Brown (2008).jpg |caption = Official portrait of Brown, {{circa}} 2008 |office = [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] |monarch = [[Elizabeth II]] |1blankname = {{nowrap|[[First Secretary of State|First Secretary]]}} |1namedata = [[Peter Mandelson|The Lord Mandelson]] {{nowrap|(2009&ndash;10)}} |term_start = 27 June 2007 |term_end = 11 May 2010 |predecessor = [[Tony Blair]] |successor = [[David Cameron]] |office1 = [[Leader of the Labour Party (UK)|Leader of the Labour Party]] |deputy1 = [[Harriet Harman]] |1blankname1 = {{nowrap|[[General Secretary of the Labour Party|General Secretary]]}} |1namedata1 = [[Peter Watt]]<br>[[Ray Collins, Baron Collins of Highbury|Ray Collins]] |2blankname1 = [[Labour Party Chair (2001)|Chairman]] |2namedata1 = [[Harriet Harman]] |term_start1 = 24 June 2007 |term_end1 = 11 May 2010 |predecessor1 = [[Tony Blair]] |successor1 = [[Ed Miliband]] |office2 = [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]] |primeminister2 = [[Tony Blair]] |term_start2 = 2 May 1997 |term_end2 = 28 June 2007 |predecessor2 = [[Kenneth Clarke]] |successor2 = [[Alistair Darling]] {{collapsed infobox section begin|Shadow Cabinet positions}} |office3 = [[Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer]] |leader3 = {{Unbulleted list|[[John Smith (Labour Party leader)|John Smith]]|[[Margaret Beckett]] (Acting)|[[Tony Blair]]}} |term_start3 = 24 July 1992 |term_end3 = 2 May 1997 |1blankname3 = Shadowing |1namedata3 = [[Norman Lamont]]<br>[[Kenneth Clarke]] |predecessor3 = [[John Smith (Labour Party leader)|John Smith]] |successor3 = [[Kenneth Clarke]] |office4 = [[Shadow Secretary of State for Busin