Gordon Brown 'to stand down as MP'

Written By Unknown on Senin, 01 Desember 2014 | 19.12

1 December 2014 Last updated at 11:51

Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown will announce later that he will stand down as an MP at the next general election, the BBC understands.

The Labour MP for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath has been in Parliament for nearly 32 years.

He served from 1997 to 2007 as chancellor, in Tony Blair's government.

Mr Brown was then prime minister from 2007 to 2010, when Labour was defeated, recording its worst general election result since 1983.

The 63-year-old recently played a leading role in the campaign against Scottish independence.

Charity work

Mr Brown, who first entered Parliament in 1983, is expected to confirm his intentions in a speech to his constituency Labour Party later on Monday.

The BBC's assistant political editor Norman Smith said it was "not a huge surprise", with Mr Brown having been a "relatively infrequent visitor to Westminster" since the 2010 general election.

Since resigning as prime minister and Labour leader, Mr Brown has focused on charity work and his role as United Nations special envoy for global education.

During the Scottish independence referendum campaign, he set out a timetable for boosting the Scottish Parliament's powers if voters rejected independence, which was backed by the leaders of the three main pro-Union parties.

He held his seat with a majority of 23,000 at the last election.


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