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The latest news and opinion on Scottish politician Gordon Brown, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, member of parliament, Chancellor of the Exchequer and leader of the Labour Party

Keir Starmer could replace Rachel Reeves with Gordon Brown as Chancellor by elevating the former Prime Minister to the Lords (Picture: Leon Neal)

Talk of Gordon Brown as Chancellor shows depths of Labour's troubles Brian Monteith

Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss attends the 'Popular Conservatives' conference, presumably unaware of the irony

Liz Truss legal letter is tone deaf and beyond embarrassing Alexander Brown

The Big House Multibank in Fife is calling on local residents to support its drive to combat hygiene poverty in the region

The Big House Multibank campaigns to combat child hygiene poverty in 2025

Elon Musk has frequently campaigned for right-wing parties

Elon Musk is getting more involved in UK politics, and what MPs think Alexander Brown

Sir Keir Starmer (left) has fired a broadside in the wake of comments made by X owner Elon Musk

'Lies and misinformation': Sir Keir Starmer hits back at Elon Musk

Members of the public gathered to pay their respects outside the public memorial service for Alex Salmond, who died aged 69 last month

The personal and political: Inside Alex Salmond's memorial service

Alex Salmond memorial The high-profile figures at St Giles' Cathedral

Scotland and the UK need to ensure that hospices are properly funded or they may need to start turning people away (Picture: Pascal Pochard-Casabianca)

Polls showing strong support for assisted dying are not what they seem Murdo Fraser

Palliative care services are facing extreme financial pressure (Picture: stock.adobe.com)

Readers' Letters: We must stop kicking the assisted dying can down the road

Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his wife Sarah at a remembrance service at the Cenotaph memorial in central London in 2018

Gordon Brown reveals why he is opposed to assisted dying law

Lord Sandy Leitch believed in giving back to society

Lord Leitch, Scot who rose from humble beginnings to become top businessman

The potential impact of an ageing population was forecast 40 years ago, a reader remarks (Picture: John Devlin)

Readers' Letters: Warnings over impact of ageing population were never heeded

The figures are taken from the latest Amazon Economic Impact Hub, which details the investments made by Amazon across the UK since 2010.

New report reveals Amazon’s £3.5 billion investment in Scotland

Lord Mandelson will deliver the speech in Edinburgh on Thursday

New Labour boss issues 'doom loop' message as £25bn tax rises 'needed'

Conservative Party Chairman Michael Ancram at the Conservative Party Conference in 2000 (Picture: Colin Davey/Getty Images)

Michael Ancram, Scottish Conservative politician

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Brown calls for social media regulation as he warns bonds are fraying

Gordon Brown: Scottish initiative is example to the world Gordon Brown

Sarah Brown, pictured speaking at an event in 2017, said her family’s time in Downing Street while her husband Gordon was prime minister, from 2007 to 2010, was 'an absolute rollercoaster'. Picture: Scott Louden

Sarah Brown reflects on life at No 10 Downing Street

Riot police hold back protesters after disorder broke out on July 30, 2024 in Southport, England. Rumours about the identity of the 17-year-old suspect in yesterday's deadly stabbing attack here have sparked a violent protest.

The far-right is on the rise, and won't be stopped with compromise Alexander Brown

Starmer is off to a good start as Prime Minister, and I should know Douglas Beattie

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar celebrates with newly elected MP Maureen Burke (right) after she is declared the winner of the Glasgow North East constituency during the count for Glasgow Central and Glasgow South constituencies at the Emirates Arena.

A transplant surgeon and a golf pro - meet your new Scottish MPs

Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer go head-to-head in a BBC TV debate. One reader has little faith in the pledges made by either leader (Picture: Jeff Overs/BBC/PA Wire)

Don't trust Starmer or Sunak to keep election promises - readers' letters

Gordon Brown, Armando Iannucci and Ally McCoist have all been recognised in the King's Birthday Honours List

Gordon Brown and Ally McCoist among Scots recognised in King’s Birthday Honours

Edinburgh-born comic and impressionist Rory Bremner is appearing at this year's Borders Book Festival. Picture: Lloyd Smith

Borders Book Festival pulls plug on Baillie Gifford sponsorship

Frank Field was a tireless campaigner on social reform (Picture: Isabel Infantes/AFP)

Scotsman Obituaries: Frank Field, Labour Party political maverick

Why Scotland needs a national insurance cut more than a reduction in income tax John McLellan

Beware! A year of cringe-worthy photo-ops by Sunak and Starmer await the nation Aidan Smith

Workers picket at the Grangemouth oil refinery during the industrial action in April 2008. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Cabinet papers highlight emergency plan concerns during Grangemouth strike

Tony and Cherie Blair arrive at St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral to pay their respects to Alistair Darling. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Tributes paid to Alistair Darling: chancellor, family man and tractor enthusiast

Why would anyone want to be Tory leader, a job with zero prospects Alexander Brown

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling: Tributes pour in for a ‘statesman of unimpeachable integrity’

Former Chancellor and Labour MP Alistair Darling dies aged 70

Exclusive Brown-led Labour reforms not worth paper they are written on, claims mayor

Labour must reinvent devolution and create a Union fit for purpose Henry McLeish

Lord Murray Elder was a childhood friend of Gordon Brown. Picture: Chris McAndrew/UK Parliament

Leading Labour figure Lord Elder dies after collapsing outside chamber

From left: Simon McMahon of Amazon, Pauline Buchan of The Cottage Family Centre, and former PM Gordon Brown. Picture: contributed.

Amazon and Scottish firms unite to help Scots families in need

Pictured: Simon McMahon (Amazon) Gordon Brown, and Pauline Buchan from the Cottage Family Centre at the warehouse which sits at the heart of the vast 'click and collect' project (Pic: Ian Georgeson)

Unique Fife project gives 1.5m goods free to families in need across Scotland

Former prime minister Gordon Brown who has said that states which banked 'staggering' profits from the high price of oil last year should pay a global windfall levy to help poorer nations in the fight against climate change. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Gordon Brown: States that reaped 'staggering' oil profits should pay global wind...

Brian Coane, chair of the Advertising Association, Scotland, says: 'The summit will be the perfect occasion to reflect on the period of political change.' Picture: contributed.

Lead Scotland advertising summit prepares for return in Edinburgh

Exclusive Douglas Alexander: SNP's Westminster record 'a study in impotence and failure'

Some of the hundreds of workers employed on the construction of the Cunard liner Queen Mary at John Brown's shipyard, Clydebank, leaving the vessel at lunchtime, circa 1935 (Picture: General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Don't blame Gordon Brown for heavy industry woes

Exclusive Labour will not scrap £715m welfare agency branded 'wasteful' by Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown accused SNP ministers of wasting more than £700 million on setting up a separate social security agency in Scotland.

Deaths from drug-linked causes in Scotland are being excluded from official statistics (Picture: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Untrustworthy statistics harm Scotland's reputation

Public spending watchdog Audit Scotland expects the Glen Sannox project to cost at least £293 million – three times the original contract.

Readers' Letters: No end in sight for Glen Sannox ferry debacle

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Gordon Brown accuses SNP ministers of wasting money on social security agency

Andy Burnham

UK heading for most unpleasant election in our lifetimes, says Andy Burnham

Thousands of jobs are at risk as retailer Wilko confirms collapse.

Wilko ‘could be saved’ by rival discount chains according to experts

Women flee after Taliban fighters beat them and fire bullets into the air to break up a protest in Afghanistan's capital Kabul in August last year (Picture: Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images)

‘Ethical foreign policy’ or not, UK should treat Taliban as pariahs

James McLeary, an IT security expert based in Thailand, was behind a Twitter account that posted abuse to politicians. Picture: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire

'Hateful online troll' part of GlobalScot programme being spoken to

We must always challenge the ideology that human pain is a 'price worth paying' Joyce McMillan

Sir Keir Starmer is rumoured to want to appoint more peers to the House of Lords.

SNP claim Labour up to ‘old tricks’ after claims Starmer would create more Lords

Unionist supporters confront Scottish pro-independence marchers

Ben Macpherson: Time to ditch terms such as 'unionist' and 'nationalist'

Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown during a 'Making Britain Work For Scotland' rally

Gordon Brown’s latest ‘save the Union’ plan faces reality check

Would Labour leader Keir Starmer be able to reform the UK in a way that Gordon Brown could not when he was Chancellor and then Prime Minister? (Picture: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

Independent Scotland must be a good neighbour to UK – Stewart McDonald

SNP MSP and Minister for Independence Jamie Hepburn

Readers' Letters: Independence Minister wrong about Brown and Vow

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